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Daw
Kyan is one of the foremost Myanmar historians of the post Independence Era. She was born on 1
July 1919 in Thantwe, Rakhine State. In 1935 she passed the High School
Final Examination and worked as a junior teacher for awhile and later as an
Upper Division Clerk in the Postal Department. In 1951 she joined the
University of Yangon as a Special Class student and obtained her B.A. degree
in 1954 and the master of Arts (History) degree in 1959. While studying as a
M.A candidate she worked as a tutor in the English Department of the Yangon
University. In 1956 she was
appointed as a Research Officer in the Burma Historical Commission and that
her promotion as a Senior Research Officer in 1963. She specialized on the
last two reigns of the Konbaung period and the early British period of the
Myanma History. In 1978 she retired but continued her work as an Adviser
till 1984. From 1985 to 1991
she helped, as a Consultant, the Ministry of Industry (1) in compiling the
six volumes of the History of the Myanmar Industrial enterprises Myanmar Naingnagan Set hmu Let hmu Loke ngan Thamaing from the late konbaung period
to 1988. Since 1991 she
has been working as a full-time Member of the Myanmar Language Commission.
She is also a Member of the Myanmar Literary Awards Selection Committee and
the U Ohn Pe Literary Awards Selection Committee.She was awarded
the 1978 National Literary Award for Non-fiction literature (Arts) for her
work entitled Myanma Naing ngan A che A ney (1885-86).
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