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Ko Ko Thett was born on 1972 in Rangoon, Burma, is a Burmese poet. Discover Ko Ko Thett's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

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1972

Ko Ko Thett (ကိုကိုသက်; stylised as ko ko thett; born in 1972 in Rangoon) is a poet, poetry translator and editor based in Norwich, United Kingdom.

Ko Ko Thett has published poetry collections, anthologies and translations in both Burmese and English.

1993

In 1993, Ko Ko Thett enrolled in Yangon Institute of Technology, where he became a founder member of a campus-based samizdat poetry circle.

1996

He was detained in 1996 for his involvement in the

December 1996 student uprising.

1997

Upon his release in April 1997, he left the country for Singapore, and worked for humanitarian organizations in Bangkok (Thailand) and in Europe.

He read political science and cultural anthropology at universities in Helsinki (Finland), Vienna (Austria) and Leuven (Belgium).

2012

He was a recipient of the 2012 English PEN Writers in Translation Programme Award for Bones will Crow, an anthology of 15 contemporary Burmese poets, he co-edited with James Byrne.

From 2012 to 2020, Ko Ko Thett was country editor for Myanmar at Poetry International, and from 2017 to 2022, poetry editor for Mekong Review.

Ko Ko Thett has been published in Ambit, Asia Literary Review, Bengal Lights, Cyphers, Daedalus, Granta, Griffith Review, PN Review, Poetry London, Portside Review, The Margins, Tripwire, Usawa Literary Review, Washington Square Review, and World Literature Today, among others.

His book, Bamboophobia, was shortlisted for the 2022 Walcott Poetry Prize.

2016

Following a residency at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in the United States in 2016, and a book tour, he returned to Myanmar in 2017.