Min Min or MIN may refer to: Places * Fujian, also called Mǐn, a province of China ** Min Kingdom (909–945), a state in Fujian * Min County, a county of Dingxi, Gansu province, China * Min River (Fujian) * Min River (Sichuan) * Mineola (Amtrak ...

Lu ( my, မင်းလူ; 18 May 1954 – 14 August 2013) was a Burmese writer. His real name was Nyan Paw (). He was born in Yangon in 1954, the fourth and youngest son of Thadu, a film director and writer, and Khin Nyo, a school headmistress. His brothers,

Thu Maung Thu Maung ( my, သုမောင် ; 13 March 1951 – 16 May 2010; born Bala) was a Myanmar Academy Award-winning film actor, singer as well as a distinguished writer and director. Throughout his film career, Thu Maung acted in over 40 films. ...

and

Maung Wunna Maung Wunna ( my, မောင် ဝဏ္ဏ, 19 January 1947 – 11 January 2011) was a two-time Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards-winning Burmese director and writer. He came from a family heavily involved in the entertainment industry� ...

, were also well known writers. He studied philosophy at

Yangon University '') , mottoeng = There's no friend like wisdom. , established = , type = Public , rector = Dr. Tin Mg Tun , undergrad = 4194 , postgrad = 5748 , city = Kamayut 11041, Yangon , state = Yangon Regio ...

from 1972 to 1977. His first novelette, ''Pan Kyaung'' (Flower School), was published in 1977. He went on to publish nearly 50 books in his career. He became a

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

in 1992. Several of his books were converted into movies and he wrote scripts for most of them. He was arrested twice for his involvement in popular movements against government. He was arrested the first time for participating in the

U Thant Thant (; ; January 22, 1909 – November 25, 1974), known honorifically as U Thant (), was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian to hold the position. He held t ...

incident in 1974. He was sentenced for seven years but released after seven months because he was a student at that time. He was again sentenced for seven year in 1989 for his poem, ''Bartway Phyit Kone Kya Pi Lae'' () but was released after three years. Over one thousand people were arrested by then military government for publishing and distributing the poem. He died of lung cancer in

Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

on 14 August 2013. He was survived by his wife, San San Aung, a university librarian, and two daughters.

References

External links

''Min Lu's Book''
from searchmyanmar.com
''Pan Kyaung''
from burmeseclassic.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Lu, Min 1954 births 2013 deaths Burmese satirists Burmese writers People from Yangon University of Yangon alumni Deaths from lung cancer