Mya Than Tint, the Glossary
Mya Than Tint (23 May 1929 – 18 February 1998) was a five-time Myanmar National Literature Award winning Burmese writer and translator.[1]
Table of Contents
53 relations: Autobiographies of Maxim Gorky, British rule in Burma, Cao Xueqin, City of Joy, Coco Islands, Dominique Lapierre, Dream of the Red Chamber, Erich Segal, F. Tennyson Jesse, Gone with the Wind (novel), Great Britain, His Last Bow, Ilya Ehrenburg, Indian Ocean, Insein Prison, Intracerebral hemorrhage, J. D. Salinger, Leo Tolstoy, M. M. Kaye, Magway Region, Mandalay (poem), Margaret Mitchell, Maurice Collis, Maxim Gorky, Myaing, Myanmar, Myanmar National Literature Award, Myanmar National Literature Award for Translation, Ne Win, Novelist, Pakokku, Pakokku Township, Robert Elegant, Robert Payne (author), Romance novel, Sherlock Holmes, Short story, Simone de Beauvoir, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, The Catcher in the Rye, The Class (Erich Segal novel), The Fall of Paris, The Far Pavilions, The Irrawaddy, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Second Sex, The Times, Translation, ... Expand index (3 more) »
- Burmese translators
- People from Magway Division
Autobiographies of Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky wrote three autobiographical works, namely My Childhood (translit), In the World (translit) and My Universities (translit).
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British rule in Burma
The British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.
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Cao Xueqin
Cao Xueqin (Pinyin); (4 April 1710 — 10 June 1765)Briggs, Asa (ed.) (1989) The Longman Encyclopedia, Longman, was a Chinese novelist and poet during the Qing dynasty.
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City of Joy
City of Joy (La Cité de la joie) is a 1985 novel by Dominique Lapierre.
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Coco Islands
The Coco Islands (ကိုကိုးကျွန်း) are a small group of islands in the northeastern Bay of Bengal.
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Dominique Lapierre
Dominique Lapierre (30 July 1931 – 2 December 2022) was a French author.
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Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone is an 18th-century Chinese novel authored by Cao Xueqin, considered to be one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
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Erich Segal
Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, educator, and classicist who wrote the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and its hit film adaptation.
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F. Tennyson Jesse
Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood (born Wynifried (Winifred) Margaret Jesse; 1 March 1888 – 6 August 1958) was an English criminologist, journalist and author (she also wrote as Wynifried Margaret Tennyson).
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Gone with the Wind (novel)
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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His Last Bow
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is a 1917 collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917).
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Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг,; – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
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Insein Prison
Insein Prison (အင်းစိန်ထောင်) is located in Yangon Division, near Yangon (Rangoon), the old capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma).
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Intracerebral hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as hemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain (i.e. the parenchyma), into its ventricles, or into both.
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J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.
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Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov.
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M. M. Kaye
Mary Margaret "Mollie" Kaye (21 August 1908 – 29 January 2004) was a British writer.
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Magway Region
Magway Region (မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,; formerly Magway Division) is an administrative division in central Myanmar.
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Mandalay (poem)
"Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892.
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Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist.
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Maurice Collis
Maurice Stewart Collis (10 January 1889 – 12 January 1973) was an administrator in Burma (Myanmar) when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects. Mya Than Tint and Maurice Collis are Burmese writers.
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Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Алексей Максимович Пешков; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent.
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Myaing
Myaing is a town and seat of Myaing Township in the Magway Region of central Myanmar.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Myanmar National Literature Award
Myanmar National Literature Awards (အမျိုးသား စာပေဆု) are awards presented to a Burmese author who has published a particularly lauded piece or body of work.
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Myanmar National Literature Award for Translation
Burma National Literature Awards for Translation (အမျိုးသားစာပေဆု - ဘာသာပြန်) is a literary prize awarded each year for an author who has translated from the foreign language by the government committee.
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Ne Win
Ne Win (နေဝင်း;; 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002), born Shu Maung, was a Burmese army general, politician and military commander who served as Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974, and also President of Burma from 1962 to 1981. Mya Than Tint and Ne Win are university of Yangon alumni.
Novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.
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Pakokku
Pakokku (ပခုက္ကူမြို့) is the largest city in the Magway Region of Myanmar.
Pakokku Township
Pakokku Township (ပခုက္ကူ မြို့နယ်) is a township of Pakokku District in Magway Division of Burma (Myanmar).
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Robert Elegant
Robert Sampson Elegant (7 March 1928 – 20 June 2023) was an American-British author and journalist.
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Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911 – 18 February 1983) was an English-born author, known principally for works of biography and history, although he also wrote novels, poetry, magazine articles and many other works.
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Romance novel
A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892.
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927.
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by American author J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951.
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The Class (Erich Segal novel)
The Class is Erich Segal's 6th novel, published in 1985.
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The Fall of Paris
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870–1871, is a 1965 history of the Paris Commune written by Alistair Horne and published by St. Martin's Press.
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The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions is an epic novel of British-Indian history by M. M. Kaye, published in 1978, which tells the story of an English officer during the British Raj.
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The Irrawaddy
The Irrawaddy is a news website by the Irrawaddy Publishing Group (IPG), founded in 1990 by Burmese exiles living in Thailand.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published late in 1893 with 1894 date.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1905 collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903–1904, by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex (Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.
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University of Yangon
The University of Yangon (also Yangon University; ရန်ကုန် တက္ကသိုလ်,; formerly Rangoon College, Rangoon University and Rangoon Arts and Sciences University), located in Kamayut, Yangon, is the oldest university in Myanmar's modern education system and the best known university in Myanmar.
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War and Peace
War and Peace (translit; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ) is a literary work by Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
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Yangon
Yangon (ရန်ကုန်), formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma).
See also
Burmese translators
- Maung Paw Tun
- Mya Than Tint
- Usha Narayanan
People from Magway Division
- Ashin Sandadika
- Aung Bala
- Aung Kaung Mann
- Aung San
- Aung Thin
- Aung Thu (minister)
- Ba Win
- Chanmyay Sayadaw
- Cherry Thin
- David Donnison
- Htike Zaw
- Ju (writer)
- Kyaw Swe (politician)
- Mya Than Tint
- Myint Maung
- Nay Htoo Naing
- Nay Win Myint
- Nu Nu (footballer)
- Nyi Min Han
- Ohn Maung
- Ohn Pe
- Sein Win (politician, born 1944)
- Soe Maung
- Soe Min Naing
- Tha Myat
- Thein Tun
- Thet Mon Aye
- Too Too
- Tun Min
- U Gambira
- Win Pe Myint
- Win Zaw Oo
- Ye Aung
- Zaw Htay
- Zaw Win Lay
- Zin Ni Ni Win
- Zune Yu Ya Oo