Naing Win Swe (; 1940–1995) was a prominent
Burmese writer and poet.
He wrote some famous Burmese short stories and novels as revolutionist and patriot. After the failed
8888 Uprising
The 8888 Uprising, also known as the People Power Uprising and the 1988 Uprising, was a series of nationwide protests, marches, and riots in Burma (present-day Myanmar) that peaked in August 1988. Key events occurred on 8 August 1988 and ther ...
he left Burma. He was killed in a jungle on the Thai Border in 1995 by the
Burmese Army
The Myanmar Army (; ) is the largest branch of the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar, and has the primary responsibility of conducting land-based military operations. The Myanmar Army maintains the second largest active force in Southea ...
.
The legend is that, as he lay dead on the battleground his comrades picked wild flowers and covered his remains with the flowers before they retreated as they didn't have enough time to bury him.
Naing Win Swe's most famous book was "Ma Thein Shin Si Pote Pay Bar (1971)" a fictionalized semi-autobiographical novel. The story is a tragic love story of a smuggler-girl and a train-ticket-inspector on the Taung Dwin Gyi – Kyaukpaaung shuttle-train in middle Burma in late 1960s at the height of military-Socialist repression during
General Ne Win's long rein.
None of Naing Win Swe's novels have been published in English translation, but Naing Win Swe's poem "Willow Tree" is featured in the Foreign Policy in Focus website of the Institute for Policy Studies.
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References
External links
Mahuyar.pdf ''Mahuyar''.
Poem ''Naing Win Swe's Poem''.
''Ma Thein Shin''.
Conflicts in 1988
Burmese democracy activists
1941 births
1995 deaths