Tin Moe
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| Born |
Ba Gyan November 19, 1933 Myingyan, Taungtha Township, British Burma |
| Died | January 22, 2007 (aged 73) Los Angeles, California |
| Alma mater | University of Mandalay |
| Occupation | Poet |
Tin Moe (Burmese: တင်မိုး; MLCTS: tangmui:; [tɪ̀ɴ mó]) (1933-2007) was a Burmese poet.
Tin Moe was born Maung Ba Gyan in the village of Kanmyè in Taungtha Township, Myingyan, Mandalay Division. He received his early education at a Buddhist monastery, and attended school at the town of Yezagyo. His reputation preceded him when he went on to study at the University of Mandalay at the request of faculty members who had been impressed by an essay he wrote for the matriculation exam. He was already a published poet under the pen name Kan Myè Nan Myint Nwe in the Ludu Journal of Mandalay.
In 1956 Tin Moe collected his poems into a book titled Hpan Mee Ain (English: The Lantern). It won him the National Literary Award for Poetry in 1959. He continued to write poems and essays, and became editor of poetry at the Ludu Daily in Mandalay. He also worked for a time as the editor of Pei Hpu Hlwar magazine.
His early poems were influenced by Min Thu Wun and Zawgyi, who in their time pioneered a new age literary movement while still at Rangoon University. They also inspired him to write poems for children. Some of these were later turned into songs for children and also included in school texts.
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