Ma Thida 1994 PEN Case List

Photocopy of the PEN International Case List of 1994 which presents the case of Ma Thida, founding member and president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), and PEN International Board...
Link the Wor[l]ds symposium

Photograph taken during a symposium titled Link the Words, which took place from 27 to 31 May 2015 at the Taw Win Garden Hotel in Yangon, and was organised...
Cover of The New Aesthetic Union

Book cover of The New Aesthetic Union, PEN Myanmar, 2017. The booklet bearing this cover was distributed to the participants of the New Union of Literature Festival, which took...
Peace Literary Awards 2014 Laureates

Photograph of the laureates of the Peace Literary Awards given by the Myanmar Centre on 21 September 2014, in Yangon, Myanmar. Many of them can be seen holding their...
New Offices of Myanmar Centre

Photograph of the inaugural conference taking place in Myanmar Centre's new offices in Yangon, in 2018. The conference was chaired by Myo Myint Nyein, treasurer (2013-16) and president (2016-)...
Ma Thida and Elliot Philipp

Photograph of Ma Thida, founding member and president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), and PEN International Board member (2016-), and British gynaecologist and obstetrician Elliot Philipp, who wrote to...
Cover of the November 8 Diary

Book cover of Han San et al. November 8 Diary. Yangon: PEN Myanmar, 2016. The book was published by the Myanmar Centre and it contains a collection of pieces...
Peace Literary Awards 2015 Laureates

Photograph of the laureates of the Peace Literary Awards given by the Myanmar Centre on 20 September 2015, in Yangon, Myanmar. Many of them can be seen holding their...
International Women Day Campaign #BalanceForBetter

Photograph of an event organised on International Women Day 2019, on 8 March, by the Women Writers Committee (WWC) of the Myanmar Centre, as part of the worldwide #BalanceForBetter...
Moe Yan Naing and his Wife

Photograph of Moe Yan Naing and his wife, Daw Tu Tu, talking at an event that had been organised on International Women Day 2019, on 8 March, by the...
Launch of November 8 Diary

Photograph of the crowd attending the book launch event of the November 8 Diary, a collection of pieces based on their authors' experience of the historical 2015 election in...
Panel on Democratic Federalism

Photograph of a public awareness panel on democratic federalism that took place on 28 October 2017 in Mandalay, Myanmar, as part of the New Aesthetic Union programme, and to...
Centenary of Bo Aung Kyaw Commemoration

Photograph taken in 2018 at a commemoration event for the centenary of Bo Aung Kyaw, in Mae Zali Gone village, Ayeyarwady, Myanmar. Aung Kyaw is known for being the...
Founding Committee of the Myanmar Centre

Photograph of the founding members of the Myanmar Centre, taken on 6 October 2013. Front row, from left to right: Min Wai Hin; Nay Phone Latt; Myo Myint Nyein,...
Zeyar Lynn giving a Poetry Workshop

Photograph of Zeyar Lynn, poet and Board member of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), giving a poetry workshop in English. This workshop was opened to all and took place in...
Article about Ma Thida's emprisonment

Copy of D. Fushman, Katharine. "Ma Thida of Burma, Novelist and Doctor, is Jailed for 'Unlawful Literature'," PEN Newsletter, no. 23 (15 March 1999): 3, describing the work and...
Pascal Khoo Thwe giving a conference

Photograph of Pascal Khoo Thwe, member of the Myanmar Centre and author of From the Land of Green Ghosts, gives a conference about his book during an event aimed...