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A brief biography of Aung Thin

He was the eldest of three children born to Thakin Nyi Maung and Daw Shwe Kyin, who lived in Taungdwingyi Township, on April 17, 1927. His real name was “Aung Thin.”

At the age of five, he began his education at Sayar U Tha Dun Zan's primary school in Taungpyin. After passing the fourth grade, he continued his secondary education at Moethi Myanmar High School in Taungdwingyi. In the sixth grade, he experienced a student strike in 1938. That year, his mother died.

While studying in the seventh grade, I started to lose interest in my studies and failed exams.

He failed. Then, while he was leaving school, his father remarried. He became a monk in 1941. During his monastic life and studies, World War II broke out and he had to leave monastic life.

After World War II, he joined the People's Comrades Army in 1947. From there, he joined the Socialist Party, attended training courses, and rose to the level of district organizer.

When the colored rebels emerged in 1949, they were arrested by white soldiers and imprisoned in Magway Prison.

He was held in Taungdwingyi Prison, Pyidaungsu Prison, and Thayet Prison, and escaped from Thayet Prison in November 1949.

In 1952, he returned to Taungdwingyi and sat for the university entrance examination, which he passed in the same year (1953). In October 1953, he joined Moe Htet High School as a middle school teacher, and in 1956, he left his job and began studying at Magway College for a degree in fine arts. In 1958, he continued his studies at Rangoon University, where he graduated in 1960 with a degree in Burmese language and fine arts, English language and fine arts, and philosophy.

In 1961, while pursuing his B.Ed., he was given the opportunity to take the Master of Arts qualification examination under Professor U Wun of the Department of Burmese Literature, so he passed the examination. In 1962, he became a lecturer at the University of Yangon. In 1963, he transferred to Mawlamyine Degree College. In May 1965, he was transferred to the Department of Burmese Literature, Pyin Oo Lwin Military Academy, as an assistant lecturer. In October 1970, he returned to the University of Yangon and continued his Master of Arts degree. In 1974, he completed his Master of Arts degree with honors after writing and presenting a “Short Story Research Paper.”

The incident that was reported in the May 1959 issue of Myawaddy Magazine, during the Thayet Prison raid

The article was Aung Thin's first work. It was written in 1958 and first sent to Shumawa. The Shumawa editorial team decided not to include any material related to the civil war, so it was sent back. It was later sent to Myawaddy, where Myawaddy reported it.

In 1960, he wrote two articles in the Pathein magazine, published by students at Yangon University, entitled “Before a Dead Man Becomes a Venerable Chairman,” and another article and a translation of an English poem. He said that one person should not publish three manuscripts.

Because of this decision, Henry Davies mentioned him as “Maung Than Naing” in his poem The Welcome.

In 1962, a fifty-page magazine called "Sasotaw" was published.

He served as the literary director of that magazine. (The editor-in-chief was the military.)

Min Ye Htun.) In that publication, he also used the alias “Maung Than Naing” once again because he had to write three or four articles every month. However, later he did not use any other name except Aung Thin. He only wrote under his real name. In 1963, he wrote three articles in the Kankaw Myaing Articles collection, two of which were published as school texts in the upper and middle grades of Burmese prose.

Around 1966, he wrote two short articles for “Mind Ocean Papers”. In 1971, he wrote a literary criticism article titled “Myanmar Language and Rhymeless Poetry” in Shumawa. Since then, he has been writing literary criticism on the subject of literature. In 1977, he published a collection of literary articles titled “Literary Articles”. In November 1983, Thabin Magazine No. 1 was launched, and from that issue No. 1, he wrote a monthly section titled “My Favorite Short Stories” for 25 months.

In April 1978, he was dismissed from his job by the Myanmar Socialist Path Party because he was considered to be involved in political activities.

From that time on, he has made a living teaching Burmese literature and writing literature in freelance classes, and he continues to do so today.

Wandering around

I have three children. The eldest is a daughter, and the two youngest are sons. The eldest daughter is the eldest daughter and the two youngest sons.

My middle son is married but has no children.

The youngest is a 4-year-old daughter. So my wife and I are grandparents to 4 grandchildren.

My eldest daughter's husband has a degree in mining engineering. However, he did not become a mining engineer, but a marine engineer. After they got married, they lived in my house.

Because of this, their daughter (our granddaughter) was raised by my wife and I as a small child. The same goes for the other two monkeys. Later, they also left their parents' homes. However, all the grandchildren always come to our house. They come during school holidays. As for her grandmother and the two monkeys, they give us food allowance as usual.

Running around, shouting, knocking, and stammering. I had to practice not to get upset or upset.

When the animals haven't come for a long time, my wife's grandmother says, "I'm bored.. I'll go home and stay there." She goes to her "grandchildren" for a week and comes back exhausted. My son Alat and his wife live at home with me, so I leave my food and drink to them. I can say that they are very Burmese grandmothers.

We live in Sanchaung. My eldest daughter and grandchildren are in history. Our street is a narrow one-way street, their street is even shorter. My grandchildren grew up in our street, and all the children on the street were their playmates. When there was a children's sports game on Independence Day, they came. The people on the street didn't consider them strangers. They considered them to be the kids on their street.

At the time of writing this letter, the eldest granddaughter is already in her second year of computer science. She is quite mature for her age. She is also very intelligent. She can also help her mother. She can be considered a smart daughter. The middle son is in grade 9, and she has no problems except that she is always busy with her younger brother. The youngest is in grade 4. This little one is nine or ten years old. His name is Maung Nyan Shet. As his name suggests, he is very intelligent. I must say that everyone knows Paung Chan, the public preacher from Myawaddy TV. At that time, Maung Nyan Shet was not even three years old. When the story of Paung Chan came on, the little one would go to the TV with his lower body and sing the Chinese song from beginning to end. The song was

He even mixed in the tunes of "Dong Gwan" and "Wan Chow Mahan Pung Ngung Ngung Pa". He didn't understand, and we didn't understand a single word. But we couldn't help but laugh when we saw him and his friends.

Once, Mya Than Tint, a traveler, came to my house early. I hadn't gotten up yet. When the man upstairs saw him, he said, "Grandpa, get up, Mya Than is coming." Mya Than Tint heard a voice say, "Hey, who's calling me, Mya Than." I laughed and got up.