Theippan Maung Wa - Legacy

Legacy

Theippan Maung Wa met an untimely death at the hands of dacoits (armed robbers) near Shwebo soon after the Japanese invasion in 1942. Many writers subsequently took over his mantle which established the new form of literature after the War, portraying in semi-fictional sketches the day to day life of ordinary people in simple language eschewing verbosity and rhetoric.

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