San Lin Tun

San Lin Tun is the only writer I know in Myanmar who writes exclusively in English.  His story, ‘An Overheated Heart’ which appeared in Hidden Words, Hidden Words: Contemporary Short Stories from Myanmar, was, I think, the first he had published in Burmese.  This has made him an unknown quantity among literary circles in Yangon as his contemporaries, mostly unable to read his English work, are uncertain how to rate him as a writer.

This feature by Zon Pann Pwint in the Myanmar times is an ove...