About
Mi Chan Wai (1953) was born in Tha Htone, in the Mon State of Myanmar. In 1984, she wrote her first short story “I, the raft man” under her current penname Mi Chan Wai for Myeik Magazine. Since then she has continued to publish stories featuring the lives of fishermen, divers, and their families from the Myeik archipelago in various Burmese literary journals. In 2000, she received the Myanmar National Literary Award for her collection of sea stories, Heart Broken Oyster and Other Sea Short Stories.
