Nu Nu Yi

Nu Nu Yi was born in 1957 in Inwa, near Mandalay, and took the name of her village into her pen name. Since 1984 she has published more than fifteen novels, about a hundred short stories and articles, often devoted to the rural poor and the excluded, which drew the attention of the censors. Winner of the National Literary Award in 1993 and a guest of the Iowa International Writing Program in 2000, she lives in Yangon; several of her books have been translated into Japanese.

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• NovelSmile as They BowNu Nu Yi · 1994Literature