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Burma (Myanmar)

Author · Burma (Myanmar)

James Hla Kyaw

Died in 1919

James Hla Kyaw was born in 1866 into a Buddhist family. Orphaned and raised by an aunt, he converted to Christianity, studied at St John's College in Rangoon, then served the British administration as an interpreter and official. Retiring at thirty-seven for health reasons, he practised law and wrote articles, legal works and translations. Having returned to Buddhism, he died in 1919 in Upper Burma, without publishing any novel other than this one.

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