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MYANMAR LITERATURE

THE POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE OF MYANMAR After independence in the 1950s, Burmese literature went further to adopt and assimilate Western styles of writing. Many contemporary works are of history and biographical accounts. Because of strict government censorship beginning in the 1960s with the rule of Ne Win, Burmese literature has lost many of its historical characteristics, and is often mundane in nature. Short stories in magazines, however, continue to be published and remain very popular. One of the greatest female writers of the Post-colonial period is Gyanè gyaw Ma Ma Lei. The journalist Ludu U Hla was the author of numerous volumes of ethnic minority folklore, novels about inmates in U Nu era jails, and biographies of people working in different occupations. The Prime Minister U Nu himself wrote several politically oriented plays and novels.

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