page_title: Myo Min
section_title: Literary career
hierarchical_section_title: Myo Min / Literary career
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of "Selected Works of Nwe Soe", a collection reprint of notable short stories by Nwe Soe, a Burmese writer and academic
context_page_description: Myo Min was a Burmese academic, journalist and writer, who wrote under the pen names of Nwe Soe, U Myo Min and Myint Win. He was one of the founders of the Khit-San Sarpay movement, the first modern literary movement in the history of Burmese literature. He was the longtime Professor of English at Rangoon University and later at Yangon Institute of Education. He also served in several academic and research organizations, including the Burma Historical Commission, the Burma Research Society, and the Burma Translation Society. For his services to the country, he was awarded the honorary titles of Wunna Kyawhtin in 1954 and Thiri Pyanchi in 1961 by the government.
context_section_description: His literary career began while he was a student at Rangoon University. Starting in 1927, he began writing in the publications of Lungemya Kyipwayay Athin (လူငယ်များ ကြီးပွားရေး အသင်း, "Growth for Youth Association"). He came of age at a time when Burmese literature was experiencing its first modern literary movement, called Khit-San Sarpay (ခေတ်စမ်းစာပေ, lit. "Testing the Age Literature"). The movement was heavily influenced by modern English literature, and started by young Burmese writers, many of whom like Myo Min were educated in Christian missionary schools. Starting in 1935, under the pen name of Nwe Soe, he wrote several short stories and articles, as well as a few poems, in magazines associated with the Khit-San movement—Kyipwayay (ကြီးပွားရေး, "Growth") Magazine by Ludu U Hla and Ganda Lawka (ဂန္တလောက, "World of Books") Magazine by JS Furnivall. He later became an editor at Ganda Lawka.
  He wrote several articles and short stories in magazines. Some of the notable works are:
  Ma-ubin (Kyipwayay Magazine, December 1935)
  Kutho Hset (Ganda Lawka Magazine, March 1936)
  Sein-lan-thaw Taung-gon (Ganda Lawka, September 1936)
  Naing-ngan-yay (Ganda Lawka, December 1937)
  A-chit Lay-ba (Ganda Lawka, (month?) 1937)
  Set-hmu Kariya (Ganda Lawka, August 1937)
  Anya-Gyaik (Ngwetaryi Magazine, August 1960)
  Kan...Kan (Ngwetaryi, September 1960)
  Sedana Shin (Ngwetaryi, November 1963)
  He also wrote books and articles under the name U Myo Min:
  Archway English Course (1957)
  Learning English (1959)
  Old Burma (?)
  Burmese Entertainment (The Atlantic, February 1958)
caption: Selected Works of Nwe Soe, a 2010 collection of his notable works
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