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Zawgyi (writer)

Zawgyi (writer)
Zawgyi, Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic (d. 1990)

Zawgyi was a distinguished and leading Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic. His name, Zawgyi, refers to a mythical wizard from Burmese mythology. He was one of the leaders of the Hkit san movement in Burmese literature searching for a new style and content before the Second World War, along with Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe and Min Thu Wun. His first hkit san poetry, Padauk pan, was published in Hantha Kyemon pamphlet.

12 April 1907

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