Ponnya Khin

Ponnya Khin (Burmese: ပုညခင်; born 22 September 1972) is a Burmese novel author and writer. She is one of the famous writer in Myanmar, and her best-selling novel was Kya Ma Ka Hnin Si Par Maung (I'm Rose, Darling).[1][2][3]

Ponnya Khin
Native name
ပုညခင်
Born (1972-09-22) 22 September 1972
Kyaunggon, Myanmar
OccupationWriter
ResidenceYangon
Alma materYangon University

Biography

Ponnya Khin was born on 22 September 1972 in Kyaunggon in Bassein District, Irrawaddy Division, Myanmar. At age 19, she worked as a village primary school teacher while studying for her degree. At that time, she started writing novels and short stories. In 1995, she resigned from teaching.[4]

Ponnya moved to Yangon and took a post-graduate course in Applied Psychology at Yangon University and began to publish novels based on her personal experiences. Ponnya Khin's novels describe the conditions in the rural education system and life as a village schoolteacher, urban social life, the life of girls and her personal experiences.[1]

Novels of personal experiences
  • A Nauk Taung A Yat Hma Lar Khe Thu (Girl from the South West)
  • A Shay Ta Khar A Win (Enter by the Front Door)
  • Min Ga La Bar Sayama (Auspicious Day, Teacher) [1]
  • Lat Kyan La Yaung
  • Taung Dan Dway Yae A Lon (Beyond the mountains)

The list of novels made into film
  • Kya Ma Ka Hnin Si Par Maung (I'm Rose, Darling)
  • A Nan Wine (Kiss Wine)
  • Yat Yat Sat Sat Moe (Cruel Rain)
  • Hmaw Sayar Phan Sin De Chit Chin
  • Phwet Kabyar (Love Poem Created by a Wizard)
  • A Htet Tan Sar….Yay
  • Khit Ye Thamee Pyo Myar (Girls of the Era)
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References
  1. "Ponnya Khin". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  2. "Would that Yangon University Campus had been out of hibernation, always!". Global New Light (in Burmese). 2 December 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  3. "Would that Yangon University Campus had been out of hibernation, always!, Writer Ponnya Khin". moi.gov.mm (in Burmese). Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  4. Lin Lin Khaing (6 December 2015). "Reel time for chick lit". Weekly Eleven. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
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