Min Lu (; 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 and

Maung Wunna Maung Wunna (, 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—his father Thadu was a director ...

, were also well known writers. He studied philosophy at

Yangon University The University of Yangon (also Yangon University; , ; formerly Rangoon College, University of Rangoon and Rangoon Arts and Sciences University), located in Kamayut Township, Kamayut, Yangon Region, Yangon, is the oldest university in Myanmar's m ...

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

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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

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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

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

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''Min Lu's Book''
from searchmyanmar.com
''Pan Kyaung''
from burmeseclassic.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Lu, Min 1954 births 2013 deaths Burmese satirists Burmese male writers Writers from Yangon University of Yangon alumni Deaths from lung cancer in Myanmar 20th-century Burmese writers