A ceremony to honour Dr Daw Po (Professor/Head of Myanmar Department (Retired) (excellent award in arts/ excellent social performance medal-first class), who received the Wunna Kyaw Htin Title on Myanmar Women’s Day, took place at Toungoo Hall, Myanmar Department, Yangon University, yesterday.

Full-time Myanmar Language Commission members Sayagyi U Aung Thaung and Dr Tun Tint, and Chairman of Alumni Association Saya U Myo Thant made congratulatory speeches.
Dr Khin Swe Myint, Professor/Head of Myanmar Department (Retired) read out the biography of Wunna Kyaw Htin Dr Daw Po, and presented cash, and Saya U Myo Thant, Dr Htay Lwin and U Kyaw Win also presented cash.

Dr Lwin Mar Oo, Professor/Head of the Myanmar Department, remarked, and the pupils of Myanmar Department paid respect to Wunna Kyaw Htin, Dr Daw Po.

It was attended by Myanmar Language Commission members Dr Tun Tint, U Aung Thaung, Dr Khin Swe Myint, Dr Khin Than Oo (Ma Moe Myay), Saya U Myo Thant, professors and faculty members of the Myanmar Department, members of the alumni association and invitees.

Wunna Kyaw Htin Dr Daw Po was born on 2 January 1939, in Mingin, Mawlaik District, Sagaing Region. In 1955, she passed the matriculation examination and studied at Yangon University’s Htidan College, where she completed the Inter Part (A), Inter Part (B), Honours, and Master’s courses. In 1968, she earned her Master’s degree in Literature with the thesis Ledi Pandita’s Biography and literary works. In 2014, she received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Culture and Arts (Yangon).

She served as a tutor at the Myanmar Department of Mawlamyine College in 1960, as an assistant lecturer at Pathein College in 1961-63, at Yangon University in 1963-73, at Mawlamyine College in 1973-73 and at Yangon University in 1974-80. She served as a lecturer at Magway Degree College in 1980, an Associate Professor in 1985-88, Professor and Department Head in 1988, and a Professor and Department Head in 1991-1995 at Yangon University.

She edited the Anthology of Myanmar Literature volume (5, 6, 7), and reformed the Correspondence Course into the University of Distance Education, and compiled the proverbs of ethnic people, Yatu, Dhamma That and Alinka writing styles and so on.

In 1991, she joined the study tour to China, was assigned duty by the government to serve as a guest professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies from 1995-1997, and served as Professor/Head of Department at Yangon University from 1997-99. She retired in 1999. She was conferred the Wunna Kyaw Htin Title by the government on 2025 Myanmar Women’s Day.

Nyein Thu (MNA)/KTZH

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