Sarpay Beikman distributing Myanmar classics

The Sarpay Beikman, under the Printing and Publishing Department of the Ministry of Information, is currently distributing the first three volumes of Myanmar classics and preparing for the publication of new volumes, according to the ministry.

The Sarpay Beikman, or the literature house, has been compiling the best works of Myanmar literature with the aim of making them available for posterity, so people can enjoy academic and aesthetic literature, and cherish and understand the value of Myanmar literary works, and to enable foreign researchers to study Myanmar’s characteristics, way of life, way of thinking, culture, customs, traditions, language and literature.

The literature house is currently distributing Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the 100 planned volumes of Myanmar classics.

These volumes include novels written by renowned writers in 1904, 1907, 1914, 1917, 1920, and 1921. Prominent writers have written introductions to the volumes, which are priced at Ks1200.

MNA

Translated by Kyaw Zin Lin

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar