Aung Cheint (also spelt Aung Cheimt,[2] Burmese: အောင်ချိမ့်; 1948 – August 9, 2021) was a Burmese poet. He is considered one of the greatest Burmese poets.[3][4]
Aung Cheint | |
|---|---|
အောင်ချိမ့် | |
| Born | Kyaw Than 1948 |
| Died | (aged 73) Yangon, Myanmar |
| Occupation | Poet |
Early life
editAung Cheint was born in 1948 in Tamwe Township, Yangon.[1]
Career
editAung Cheint is recognized as one of the modern poetry movement leaders,[5] alongside Thukhamein Hlaing, Maung Chaw Nwe and Phaw Way, in Myanmar. His famous works include Gandawin Ma Ma, Khin Khin Pyo Yay Saunt Khè Tae, and Athèzwè Gabyarsaya.[6]
Death
editAung Cheint died on August 9, 2021, at the age of 73, in Yangon.[7][8]
References
edit- ^ a b "ကဗျာဆရာကြီး အောင်ချိမ့် ကွယ်လွန်". Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ "Aung Cheimt Brokers No Compromise in His Art". The Irrawaddy. November 17, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ Petr Lom & ခင်မောင်အေး (November 18, 2017). "အောင်ချိမ့် သို့မဟုတ် အနုပညာကို ဘာနဲ့မှ မလဲနိုင်သူ". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
- ^ "Aung Cheimt". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved February 17, 2023.
- ^ "ကဗျာဆရာအောင်ချိမ့်အပါအဝင် ထင်ရှားတဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တချို့ ကွယ်လွန်". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ "၂၀၂၁ မြန်မာ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်း - ကဗျာဆရာ အောင်ချိမ့်ရဲ့ နောက်ဆုံးခရီး - ဘီဘီစီ မြန်မာ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ "ကဗျာဆရာကြီး ဆရာအောင်ချိမ့် ကွယ်လွန်". Eleven Media Group. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
- ^ "ထင်ရှားတဲ့ မြန်မာစာရေးဆရာသုံးဦး တနင်္လာနေ့က ကွယ်လွန်" [Three prominent Burmese poets and writers died on Monday]. VOA Burmese. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
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