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Burmese poetIn this Burmese name, the given name is Thitsar Ni. There is no family name.
Thitsar Ni
သစ္စာနီ
Born1946 (1946) (age 79)
Rangoon, British Burma
Occupations
  • Poet
  • writer

Thitsar Ni (Burmese: သစ္စာနီ; born 1946 in Rangoon) is a Burmese poet and writer, known for spearheading post-modern Burmese poetry since the 1970s. He has published more than 30 books under several pen names, spanning genres including poetry, short stories, literary criticism, science fiction, and religion, philosophy, and world politics. In 2011, he founded a social welfare organization, Kusala Parahita (ကုသလပရဟိတ), with singer Ratha. After witnessing the Hlaingthaya massacre in March 2021, he wrote a poem, "Hlaingthaya," which was published in a 2022 poetry anthology, Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring. Thitsar Ni is a Buddhist.

Works

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  • The Time for Fetching Water (1965)
  • Myinsaing Archery (1978)
  • Walking Out of My Own Skin
  • Redundant Sentences
  • 21st Album
  • Hlaingthaya

Notes

  1. "စာရေးဆရာ၊ ကဗျာဆရာသစ္စာနီနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese). 2019-11-24. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  2. ^ McKenna, Steph. "Translating trauma: 'Hlaingthaya' by Thitsar Ni". National Centre for Writing. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  3. ^ "Thitsar Ni - Myanmar". Arc Publications. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  4. "ကဗျာဆရာသစ္စာနီနဲ့ အဆိုတော်ရသ၊ လူမှုရေးအသင်းထူထောင်". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  5. Ling, Emma Sandvik (December 2021). "Bearing witness through poetry". Index on Censorship. 50 (4).
  6. Ni, Thitsar; thett, ko ko; Byrne, James (2012). "Two Poems". Manoa. 24 (2): 18–19. doi:10.1353/man.2012.0041. ISSN 1045-7909.
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