The Most Famous
WRITERS from Myanmar (Burma)
This page contains a list of the greatest Burmese Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 2 of which were born in Myanmar (Burma). This makes Myanmar (Burma) the birth place of the 108th most number of Writers behind Libya, and Thailand.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burmese Writers of all time. This list of famous Burmese Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Saki (1870 - 1916)
With an HPI of 56.18, Saki is the most famous Burmese Writer. His biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse. Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), Munro wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.
2. S. N. Goenka (1924 - 2013)
With an HPI of 54.88, S. N. Goenka is the 2nd most famous Burmese Writer. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.
Satya Narayana Goenka (ISO 15919: Satynārāyaṇ Goynkā; Burmese: ဦးဂိုအင်ကာ; MLCTS: u: gui ang ka; 30 January 1924 – 29 September 2013) was an Indian teacher of vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, he moved to India in 1969 and started teaching meditation. His teaching emphasized that the Buddha's path to liberation was non-sectarian, universal, and scientific in character. He became an influential teacher and played an important role in establishing non-commercial Vipassana meditation centers globally. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2012, an award given for distinguished service of high order.
3. Irawati Karve (1905 - 1970)
With an HPI of 50.37, Irawati Karve is the 3rd most famous Burmese Writer. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Irawati Karve (15 December 1905 – 11 August 1970) was a pioneering Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India. She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India. She has been claimed to be the first female Indian Sociologist. Recently an interesting biography of her has been published.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Burmese writers born between 1870 and 1924. Of these 3, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Burmese writers include Saki, S. N. Goenka, and Irawati Karve. As of April 2024, 1 new Burmese writers have been added to Pantheon including Irawati Karve.
