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Myo Myint Nyein

Childhood
Myo Myint Nyein is the fourth son of U Kyar Ba Nyein and Daw Kyi Kyi, born on 28 June 1952 in Mandalay. He finished elementary and intermediate education from Iocizen Thande’ School, Mandalay and B.E.H.S – 6, Botahtaung Yangon. He achieved a Bachelor of Science from Workers College specialized in Physics.

Family
He was married to Daw Win Htay and has two sons and one daughter: Zar Ni Myo Myint Nyein, Bo Bo Myo Myint Nyein and Dari Myo Myint Nyein. Editor He started his career in the publication industry as an Assistant Editor of the Veterans Magazine in 1977. In 1981, he worked as a Co-editor of Pay-phoo-lwar magazine established and operated by the Editor-in-Chief U Mya Hlaing. Later Myo Myint Nyein continued as a Co-editor of the Ma-Hay-The Magazine (1983), the Cinema Essence magazine (1984), the Newsletter Magazine (1984) and the News Journal (1985). He is one of the leading activists in 1988 uprising from literature and artists community. He was the Executive Editor of Democracy Newsletter published by the National League of Democracy Party.

Prisoner of Conscience
In 1990, after having published the critical poem “What is happening!” by Min Lu, he was arrested and sentenced for seven years in prison. In response to that, PEN International recognized him as an honorary member in 1990. His imprisonment was extended to another seven more years in 1996 because he, collaboration with the cellmates, managed to publish a newsletter in prison, sent a letter written and signed with the blood of political prisoners to UN about the violation of human rights in the prison, sent a letter to the on Human Rights Council Assembly (1993) held in Vienna, Austria, and having organised many human rights movements in prison. He was awarded of Freedom to Write Award by the Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression (CJFE) in 2001.

Release
As a consequence of having the petition signed by journalists around the world handed over to the Government of Myanmar by UN special rapporteur, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, he was released from Tharawaddy Prison on 13 February 2002.

Editor in Chief
Since then he has been working as the Editor-in-charge of the one of the leading literary magazines “Shwe Essence”. He worked as an editor of the Ray of Light Journal till August 2016. He was also the Editor-in-charge of the Teen monthly magazine from 2003 – 2013 till the Independence weekly Journal started publishing. Later he became an editor of the Echo Journal in 2014 and has become the publisher of the Info-Digest bi-monthly journal, a new style of news presentation in brief.

PEN Myanmar
He was one of the founders of PEN Myanmar Center, a partner organisation of PEN International in 2013. Moreover he was elected as a member of the board of PEN MM and acted as a treasurer till October 2016. He was re-elected to the board and entrusted as the President in December 2016....