Ju (writer)

In this Burmese name, the given name is Ju. There is no family name.

Ju
Native name	‹See Tfd›ဂျူး
Born	Tin Tin Win (‹See Tfd›တင်တင်ဝင်း) (1958-09-20) 20 September 1958 Yenangyaung, Magway Division, Burma
Occupation	Writer, physician
Language	Burmese
Alma mater	Institute of Medicine, Mandalay
Period	1979–present
Genre	Romance, short story
Notable works	A Hmat T'ya (Remembrance) (1987)

Ju (Burmese: ဂျူး; born Tin Tin Win on 20 September 1958) is a Burmese novelist, well known for her strong, intelligent female characters.

Early life and education

Ju was born 20 September 1958 in Yenangyaung. She is the third child of U Thaung and Daw Nyein, having five siblings. She graduated from the high school at Yenangyaung in 1975 and graduating with an MBBS degree from Institute of Medicine, Mandalay in 1983.

Career

Despite her interest in writing, upon her mother's prodding, she pursued medical studies at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay. She started writing while in medical school University of Medicine, Mandalay and her first short story (‹See Tfd›ရာဇဝင်ထဲမှာမောင့်ကိုထားရစ်ခဲ့) was published in 1979. Her writing career took off in the late 1980s, with her debut novel, Remembrance (‹See Tfd›အမှတ်တရ), published in 1987. The bestseller novel stirred controversy for endorsing Western existentialist philosophy and portraying cohabitating unwed couples.

She published fifteen novels (most of them were adapted into films), seven collections of short stories and seven collections of articles on the environment. She currently works as a co-founder of an HIV positive children orphanage and also a participant in the HIV/AIDS Media Initiative and Yadana Metta Foundation. Her writings now focus on environmental conservation.

Works

Novels

• 1987– AMhatTaya – (‹See Tfd›အမှတ်တရ)
• 1990– Myit Toe Ei Maryar – (‹See Tfd›မြစ်တို့၏ မာယာ)
• 1991– Kaung Kin Ma Par Thaw Nya and other short novels – (‹See Tfd›ကောင်းကင်မပါသောညနှင့် အခြားဝတ္ထုတိုများ)
• 1991– Kyae Mwa Twar Thaw Tain Tite Myar Akyaung – (‹See Tfd›ကြေမွသွားသော တိမ်တိုက်များအကြောင်း)
• 1992– Essential Rain – (‹See Tfd›မရှိမဖြစ်မိုး)
• 1993– Nanyan Ei Achar Taphat – (‹See Tfd›နံရံ၏ အခြားတစ်ဖက်)
• 1994– Main Ma Ta Yaut Ei Phwint Ha Win Khan Chat – (‹See Tfd›မိန်းမတစ်ယောက်၏ ဖွင့်ဟဝန်ခံချက်)
• 1994– Chit Chin Ei Anupyinnyar and other short novels – (‹See Tfd›ချစ်ခြင်း၏အနုပညာနှင့် အခြားဝတ္ထုတိုများ)
• 1995– Kankyamar Ko Ma Yone Kyi Kya Thu Myar – (‹See Tfd›ကံကြမ္မာကို မယုံကြည်ကြသူများ)
• 1996– Pinlae Nyint Tu Thaw MainMa Myar – (‹See Tfd›ပင်လယ်နှင့်တူသော မိန်းမများ)
• 1996– Myit Ta Sin Ko Phyat Kyaw Chin – (‹See Tfd›မြစ်တစ်စင်းကို ဖြတ်ကျော်ခြင်း)
• 1997– Kyar Tot Thi Lae Maung Sa Kar – (‹See Tfd›ကြာတော့သည်လည်း မောင့်စကား)
• 1997– My Tree – (‹See Tfd›ကျွန်မ၏ သစ်ပင်)
• 1997– Yar Sa Win Htae Mhar Maung Ko Htar Kae – (‹See Tfd›ရာဇဝင်ထဲမှာမောင့်ကိုထားခဲ့)
• 1997– Yae Myaw Thie – (‹See Tfd›ရေမျောသီး)
• 1998– The Books I read- (‹See Tfd›ကျွန်မဖတ်ခဲ့သော စာအုပ်များ)
• 1999– Sayarwon Ta Yaut Ei Mhatsu Myar – (‹See Tfd›ဆရာဝန်တစ်ယောက်၏ မှတ်စုများ)
• 2000– Chit Thu Yae Tae Kyon Ma Ye Nya Twe- (‹See Tfd›ချစ်သူရေးတဲ့ ကျွန်မရဲ့ညတွေ)
• 2004- Tain Nae Chi Tae Kyoe- (‹See Tfd›တိမ်နဲ့ချည်တဲ့ကြိုး)
• 2006 - Saunt Nay Mal Lo MA Pyaw Lite Buu - (‹See Tfd›စောင့်နေမယ်လို့ မပြောလိုက်ဘူး)
• 2008– Thu Min Ko Bal Tot Mha – (‹See Tfd›သူမင်းကို ဘယ်တော့မှ)
• 2011– Let The More Loving One Be Me- (‹See Tfd›ပိုချစ်ရတဲ့သူ ကိုယ်ပဲဖြစ်ပါစေ)
• 2014- Sone Nay Yat Nae Lwan Lay Chin(ဆုံနေရက်နဲ့လွမ်းနေခြင်း)
• A Thit Sat Sat Htar Wa Ya ( အသစ္စက္စက္ထာ၀ရ)
• 2018-Rainbow Lover's cover (သက်တန့်တို့ဖြင့် ရစ်ဖွဲ့ ချစ်သူရဲ့ ခြုံလွှာ)

Novella

• Kye Taw Nyake Moe Kaw Chin (with Nay Win Myint) – (‹See Tfd›ကြည်းတော၌ မိုးခေါ်ခြင်း)