Writer San Lin Tun
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer(Fiction, Non-fiction, short stories, essays, poems), lyricist, editor |
| Location | Yangon, Yangon Division, Myanmar (Burma) |
| Introduction | He was born in Yangon in 1974, and educated at Yangon Technological University, The International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University, and edXHarvardX. He was a former editor-in-charge of Learner's English Educative Magazine. His flash fiction "Parallel Lines" was anthologized in 2011 New Asian Writing Anthology, and his short story "An Overheated Heart" was anthologized in Hidden Words/Hidden Worlds Ethnic Short Story Anthology, and he was a short story instructor and a literary translator of H2 project. He was a first prize winner of poetry for 2015 Wales National Day. He has published ten books in English ranging non-fiction, fiction, short story, poetry and essays. Currently, he writes flash fiction and cultural articles for My Yangon Magazine, and contributes the translation of Burmese Version of Sherlock Holmes, Maung San Shar to Indepth Magazine. He is also a freelance contributor for Myanmar Times. His latest novel "An English Writer" came out in 2019. His writings can be read in Asia Literary Review, Kitaab, Mad in Asia Pacific, Mekong Review, NAW, PIX, South East of Now and others. |
| Interests | Rhetoric, writing, photography |
| Favorite movies | Purple Plain, A Home of Our Own |
| Favorite music | Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, B. B King, Jazz, Blues, Spanish, Rock |
| Favorite books | Pride and prejudice, White Tiger, A Passage to India, A Garden of Evening Mist |