Htoo

BIOGRAPHIE

Htoo (b:1983) started his career as journalist and later translator/writer since 2006 in local weeklies of Yangon, Myanmar. He worked as an international news desk editor in local dailies until 2015. His essays and articles are also published along with other local prominent writers in 2 collected essays books (Phwint- Htar-dat Ka- Kyow )and (Pa- Mar-Ma-Khant Eassys) in Burmese and also in local monthly magazine like HninnSiPhyu. Since 2010, he closely worked with local arts and cultural community sometimes as participant artist and writer/translator for exhibition catalogues. He was participant artist in plays enacted at Alliance Francaise de Rangoun by Theatre of the Disturbed. He also worked as festival manager for the 2nd Beyond Pressure Int’l Performance festival. He later participated as a participant in the 3rd Beyond Pressure festival and Body Report 2 event, a multi-disciplinary art event in Myanmar. He also took part in 7000 Padauk, a temporary art space and project in 2013 May with other local contemporary artists who have different backgrounds and choices of medium. Both newcomers and senior artists took part in 7000 Padauk. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a contributing editor for local monthly published by Myanmar Knowledge Society (MKS). In early 2018, he founded Pink Bear Production, a collective production with friends and produced, in collaboration with MKS, four Youtube videos to promote education reform for public schools in Myanmar. He started a docufiction short film project in 2019 and has finalized postproduction process to be part of the Reconnect Program of Goethe Institut-Myanmar. The short film is about a trishaw driver who saves his earning to record the songs he composed over the last decade. The short film was largely based on the songwriter’s daily life and mixed with fictional characters who reflect socio-political landscaped of Myanmar. It will be screened in February 2021 at the Goethe Institut, Yangon, Myanmar. His published translated books in Burmese included The Dalai Lama: A Biography by Patricia Cronin Marcello , Humanism for Children by Nada Topic Peratovic. In 2016, He translated and published Bakhtin Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts in Burmese. In 2019 February, he published ‘A Glossary of Post-colonial Studies’ in Burmese.

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