Mya Than Tint; Award-Winning Burmese Author, Translator

Mya Than Tint, 68, a prolific Burmese author and translator of such classics as “Gone With the Wind.” He studied philosophy, English literature and political science and earned a law degree at Rangoon University. The writer won five literary awards in Burma, including the National Literary Prize. His most recent original work was “On the Road to Mandalay,” a 1996 collection of writings about common people facing hardships in Burma that was published in Thailand to escape Burmese censors. A leftist who was close to members of the Communist Party of Burma, he was jailed at least twice by former strongman Ne Win and spent much of the period 1958-72 in a penal colony on the Coco Islands. On Wednesday in Rangoon, Burma, after fracturing his skull in a fall.