Khet Mar profiles Maung Wuntha, a Burmese journalist who, after a lifetime of repression, is now battling lung cancer.
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In this week’s Tea House Khet Mar profiles Burmese poet Aung Way who has been living in exile since 2007. He now has the option of returning to Burma.
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By the time San San Nweh was fifteen, she was a correspondent for three newspapers. Since then she has published many novels, short stories and poems and worked with Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
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[Burmese version] Burmese writer and journalist Khet Mar recounts her relationship with her journalism mentor, the respected journalist, editor, and pro-democracy activist Maung Moe Thu.
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[Original Burmese text] writer Khet Mar profiles Nyein Thit, a poet and political activist who was repeatedly jailed for participating in the Hmaing Centennial Strike and the 1988 uprising. The aging poet now wishes to leave activism to focus more on his writing.
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On March 3rd, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh conducted a reading of material from Burmese writer-in-residence Khet Mar, whose stories and poems were presented in Burmese, English, and Spanish. The reading featured Khet Mar, translator Michelle Gil-Montero, and poet and translator Roman Antopolsky.
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