Sayawun Tin Shwe (; died December 2000) was a prominent physician and author in
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
.
He was a committee member of the
Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association (MWJA),
and founded the Tin Shwe publishing house.
His widow, Aye Thant, established the annual
Sayawun Tin Shwe Award in his memory.
This award, given with the assistance of the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association, gives awards for new books to encourage the development of Myanmar literature.
[
Sayawun Tin Shwe was Medical Superintendent of the Htaukkyant Leprosarium, near Rangoon.
He wrote fiction as well as medical articles.
In 1963, Tin Shwe won the National Literature Award in the General Knowledge Literature category.
In August 1996 Dr. Tin Shwe of the Medical Research Department was a member of a delegation of Myanmar writers that visited Russia.
In June 2000 Tin Shwe was Chairman of the MWJA Health and Welfare Work Committee.]
Bibliography
*
*
*
*
References
{{Authority control
2000 deaths
20th-century Burmese writers
Leprologists
1936 births
University of Medicine 1, Yangon alumni
People from Mawlamyine
20th-century Burmese physicians