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Kyi Aye
Poet and Novelist
(1929- )
The most significant fact
in Myanmar literary world is no writer like Kyi Aye (Ms) has emerged, and her
creative works are still brilliant even criticized by influential critics.
Kyi Aye’s creative works
began to appear in Tayar (Star) monthly magazine, founded in 1946. Dagon
Tayar, founder and editor of Tayar, remarked that the new type of
literary work that he had expected was such work of Kyi Aye, in his foreword in
Kyi Aye’s story named “Mi”.
Kyi Aye has written over
60 short stories, some 60 poetry and 10 novels, all of which are amazing. Her
creative works has never become outdated but still artistic. That is why her
works have been reprinted and published by various publishers.
Kyi Aye’s literary works
are created out of merely pure creative mind, so they remain still fresh.
Her creative mind focuses
on _ soul, inferiority, ego, pride, stupidity, anger, love, selfishness,
distraction, jealousy and envy of mankind.
By reading her foreword
for her novel titled “Phu Ngon Pwint Thit” (New Bud) you can know whether
she has deep understanding about patriotism, representing new century,
development of the world of nature, or just ignores them. The novel was
published in 1997 by YarPyeat Publishing House.
Let me present an excerpt
from her foreword in a reprint of her novel:
“My readers will read
what I have written when I was young, eagerly or smilingly or with tolerance.
It doesn’t matter however it is.
“Moreover when I thought
about that period of writing, I can assure (that) I keep my soul honest without
any pretence and boast. So I’ve got nothing to be ashamed of. (I’m not saying
the fact haughtily. We were born with such kind of soul, I believe. A German
poet named Bertolt Brecht told that, when you look at the features of Satan,
you can notice how he had tried hard to be cruel.)”
(Brecht [1898-1956] is a playwright,
and theatrical reformer)
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Translated by Lutha Kyaw
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