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| (Art - Suu Chit Thu) |
Min Lu (1954- 2013) –
famous writer and poet passed away on August 14, 2013, after only 3 days of the death of Maung Wuntha – writer and
journalist.
Min Lu, Burmese
novelist, essayist, and critic, whose brilliant critical writings always made
his readers smile and laugh. I had been his reader since I was a University
student. His romantic novels achieved young readers’ interest from generation
to generation. I believed he always stood with people by seeing his writings. I
heard that he never went abroad even he was invited to give speech in foreign
countries. I was told that he lastly chose to go Thailand to cure his illness; lung cancer.
When I heard the news of his illness, I felt deeply sorry not only for him but
also for his family. I admired him as my favorite writer, and his decent life.
I remember the poem ‘Fame
and Friendship’, by Henry Austin Dobson, and want to honor him with deep
sympathy.
‘He had no stomach for fame
that is a food that dead men eat.’
He valued ‘Friendship’
as
‘But friendship is a
noble thing,
Of friendship it is
good to sing.’
‘For truly, when a man
shall end,
He lives in memory of
his friend
Who does his better
part recall
And of his fault make
funeral.’
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