Aung Cheint

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]

In this Burmese name, the given name is Aung Cheint. There is no family name.
Aung Cheint
အောင်ချိမ့်
Born
Kyaw Than

1948
Tamwe Township, Yangon, Burma[1]
Died (aged 73)
Yangon, Myanmar
OccupationPoet

Early life

Aung Cheint was born in 1948 in Tamwe Township, Yangon.[1]

Career

Aung 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

Aung Cheint died on August 9, 2021, at the age of 73, in Yangon.[7][8]

References
  1. "ကဗျာဆရာကြီး အောင်ချိမ့် ကွယ်လွန်". Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  2. "Aung Cheimt Brokers No Compromise in His Art". The Irrawaddy. November 17, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  3. Petr Lom & ခင်မောင်အေး (November 18, 2017). "အောင်ချိမ့် သို့မဟုတ် အနုပညာကို ဘာနဲ့မှ မလဲနိုင်သူ". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  4. "Aung Cheimt". www.poetryinternational.com (in Dutch). Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  5. "ကဗျာဆရာအောင်ချိမ့်အပါအဝင် ထင်ရှားတဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တချို့ ကွယ်လွန်". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  6. "၂၀၂၁ မြန်မာ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်း - ကဗျာဆရာ အောင်ချိမ့်ရဲ့ နောက်ဆုံးခရီး - ဘီဘီစီ မြန်မာ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  7. "ကဗျာဆရာကြီး ဆရာအောင်ချိမ့် ကွယ်လွန်". Eleven Media Group. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  8. "ထင်ရှားတဲ့ မြန်မာစာရေးဆရာသုံးဦး တနင်္လာနေ့က ကွယ်လွန်" [Three prominent Burmese poets and writers died on Monday]. VOA Burmese. Retrieved August 10, 2021.


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