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Khin Swe Oo (Burmese: ခင်ဆွေဦး, 1 December 1933 – 27 March 2019) was a Myanmar National Literature Award 's Lifetime Achievement winner. In 1961, She became well-known for her first novel, Our Nation (တိုင်းဌာနီ). She has written more than 30 articles, more than 50 full-length stories and more than 200 short novels.

Early life and education

She was born on 1 December 1933 in Sagaing, the daughter of author Maha Swe and Daw Kyi Kyi. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Mandalay University in 1956.

From 1965 to 1967 she continued her education at the University of Education and earned a degree.

Career

In 1946 she began writing articles at Thandaw Sint Journal. In 1961, she made her literary debut at the age of 28 with her novel Our Nation (တိုင်းဌာနီ), for which she became well-known.

In 1963, she received the Collected Short Stories Award for her novel May Peace Reign (ငြိမ်းချမ်းပါစေ). She has written more than 30 articles, more than 50 full-length stories and more than 200 short novels. Her last novel The Sagaing Daughter's Diary (စစ်ကိုင်းသမီးဒိုင်ယာရီ) was released in 2003.

She earned the Myanmar National Literature Award's Lifetime Achievement award in 2012.

Personal life

In 1953, she married Sein Ban. They separated after the birth of their daughter Pearl.

Death

She died on 27 March 2019.

References

1. "Evening of words returns to Yangon". The Myanmar Times.
2. "ခင်ဆွေဦး". 7Day News.
3. "အမ်ဳိးသားစာေပ တသက္တာဆုရွင္ စာေရးဆရာမႀကီး ခင္ေဆြဦး (၈၆ ႏွစ္) ကြယ္လြန္". Burmese VOA News (in Burmese). 28 March 2019.

• 1933 births
• 2019 deaths
• Burmese writers
• People from Sagaing Region
• Mandalay University alumni