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Place of Birth: Yangon, Yangon Region, Myanmar
About Min Lu
- Min Lu (Burmese: ??????; 18 May 1954 – 14 August 2013) was a Burmese writer.
- His real name was Nyan Paw (????????).
- He was born in Yangon in 1954, the fourth and youngest son of Thadu, a famous film director and writer, and Khin Nyo, a school headmistress.
- His brothers, Thu Maung and Maung Wunna, were also well known writers. He studied philosophy at Yangon University from 1972 to 1977.
- His first novelette, Pan Kyaung (Flower School), was published in 1977.
- He went on to publish nearly 50 books in his career.
- He became a screenwriter in 1992.
- Several of his books were converted into movies and he wrote scripts for most of them. He was arrested twice for his involvement in popular movements against government.
- He was arrested the first time for participating in the U Thant incident in 1974.
- He was sentenced for seven years but released after seven months because he was a student at that time.
- He was again sentenced for seven year in 1989 for his poem, Bartway Phyit Kone Kya Pi Lae (????? ???????? ?????????) but was released after three years.
- Over one thousand people were arrested by then military government for publishing and distributing the poem.He died of lung cancer in Yangon on 14 August 2013.
- He was survived by his wife, San San Aung, a university librarian, and two daughters.
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