Thitsar Ni (Burmese: သစ္စာနီ; born 1946 in Rangoon) is a Burmese poet and writer, known for spearheading post-modern Burmese poetry since the 1970s.[1][2][3] He has published more than 30 books under several pen names, spanning genres including poetry, short stories, literary criticism, science fiction, and religion, philosophy, and world politics.[3] In 2011, he founded a social welfare organization, Kusala Parahita (ကုသလပရဟိတ), with singer Ratha.[4] After witnessing the Hlaingthaya massacre in March 2021, he wrote a poem, "Hlaingthaya," which was published in a 2022 poetry anthology, Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring.[5][2] Thitsar Ni is a Buddhist.[6]
Thitsar Ni | |
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| သစ္စာနီ | |
| Born | 1946 (age 78) |
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Works
edit- The Time for Fetching Water (1965)
- Myinsaing Archery (1978)
- Walking Out of My Own Skin
- Redundant Sentences
- 21st Album
- Hlaingthaya
Notes
edit- ^ "စာရေးဆရာ၊ ကဗျာဆရာသစ္စာနီနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese). 2019-11-24. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ^ a b McKenna, Steph. "Translating trauma: 'Hlaingthaya' by Thitsar Ni". National Centre for Writing. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ^ a b "Thitsar Ni - Myanmar". Arc Publications. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ^ "ကဗျာဆရာသစ္စာနီနဲ့ အဆိုတော်ရသ၊ လူမှုရေးအသင်းထူထောင်". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ^ Ling, Emma Sandvik (December 2021). "Bearing witness through poetry". Index on Censorship. 50 (4).
- ^ Ni, Thitsar; thett, ko ko; Byrne, James (2012). "Two Poems". Manoa. 24 (2): 18–19. doi:10.1353/man.2012.0041. ISSN 1045-7909.