Ma Sandar

Ma Sandar
မစန္ဒာ
Born Cho Cho Tin
(1947-11-04) 4 November 1947
Rangoon, British Burma
(now Myanmar)
Occupation novelist, architect
Alma mater Rangoon Institute of Technology
Period 1972–present
Genre Romance, Short story
Notable works Life's Dream, Flower's Dream
Short Stories Collection 3
Hexagon
Notable awards Myanmar National Literature Award (1994, 1999, 2002)

Ma Sandar (Burmese: မစန္ဒာ; born 4 November 1947) is a well known Burmese writer.[1] With a clear and engaging style, her works reflect the daily struggles of the people living in Myanmar. Her novella, Life's Dream, Flower's Dream won the 1994 Myanmar National Literature Award for novella. Her short stories collection, Short Stories Collection 3 won the 1999 Myanmar National Literature Award for Collected Short Stories. Another novella, Hexagon won the 2002 National Literature Award for novella. 10 of her novels have been made into movies.[1]

Early life and education

She was born in Yangon and attended the Myoma All-Girls High School. She graduated in 1965, and her first short story, Me, the Teacher was published in a magazine in the same year. She attended Rangoon Institute of Technology with a major in architecture. After graduating, she worked in the Ministry of Construction, Architecture Team 2. Her first novel Don't Know Because I am Young was published in 1972. Throughout her life, she has produced so far, over 100 short short stories and short stories, 2 novellas and 13 novels.[2][3]

Novels

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  1. Sum
  2. Pending of New Green Leaves
  3. Tomorrow
  4. Rose
  5. Cloudy Moon
  6. Keeping Bad Mood in Mind Silently
  7. Please Fulfill My Blank
  8. Gi Haw Thu
  9. Circle
  10. Don't Know Because I Am Young
  11. Star Flower
  12. The Shadow

Novella

  1. Life's Dream, Flower's Dream
  2. Hexagon

Short stories

  1. Short Stories Collection 3
  2. Me, the Teacher

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 ပြန်ကြားရေးနှင့် ပြည်သူ့ ဆက်ဆံရေး ဦးစီး ဌာန (ရုံးချုပ်) စာတည်း အဖွဲ့ (2003). နှစ်ဆယ် ရာစု မြန်မာ စာရေး ဆရာ များနှင့် စာစု စာရင်း. ပညာရွှေတောင် စာအုပ်တိုက်.
  2. ↑ "Free Myanmar Book". Retrieved 2016-11-03.
  3. ↑ "Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia". Retrieved 2016-11-03.
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