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Ma Thida was born on 19 March, 0066 in Myanmar, is a Burmese human rights activist, writer, surgeon. Discover Ma Thida's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Occupation Surgeon · writer · human rights activist
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 19 March, 1966
Birthday 19 March
Birthplace Myanmar
Nationality Myanmar

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1966

Ma Thida (born c. 1966) is a Burmese surgeon, writer, human rights activist and former prisoner of conscience.

She has published under the pseudonym Suragamika which means "brave traveler".

In Myanmar, Thida is best known as a leading intellectual, whose books deal with the country's political situation.

She has worked as an editor at a Burmese monthly youth magazine and a weekly newspaper.

She has been a surgeon at Muslim Free Hospital, which provides free services to the poor.

1980

Ma Thida studied medicine in the early 1980s earning a degree in surgery, and also took up writing at a young age.

She said, "I wanted to become a writer because I want to share what I observe around me, like poverty."

Her interest in health care developed after falling ill as a child.

1993

In October 1993, she was sentenced to 20 years in Insein Prison for "endangering public peace, having contact with illegal organisations, and distributing unlawful literature."

In fact, she was actively supporting Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate and founder of the main opposition party in Burma.

She served nearly six years in unhealthy, mostly solitary conditions.

She contracted tuberculosis without adequate access to medical care.

1996

During this time she was awarded several international human rights awards, including the Reebok Human Rights Award (1996) and the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award (1996).

Ma Thida said, "Were it not for vipassana (Buddhist meditation), I would not have overcome the untold hardships I faced in prison."

In 1996 she received the award of year's PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write but she was still in prison until 1999.

1999

In 1999, she was released on "humanitarian grounds" after serving five years, six months and six days.

She was released due to declining health, increasing political pressure and the efforts of human rights organizations like Amnesty International and PEN International.

Later she chaired the Pen Myanmar.

Her first book was The Sunflower, which was only released in Burma in 1999, as it was banned upon international release in the early 1990s.

The book argues that the Burmese people have high expectations of democracy icon Suu Kyi that made her "a prisoner of applause."

2008

From 2008 to 2010, she lived in the US as an International Writers Project Fellow at Brown University and a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.

2012

The Roadmap (2012) is a fictional story based on events in Burmese politics from 1988 to 2009.

The Myanmar-language book Sanchaung, Insein, Harvard is a memoir, as the title suggests, about her early life in Sanchaung, imprisonment in Insein, and time in the United States.

2016

In the month of July 2016, the English translation of her prison memoir "Sanchaung, Insein, Harvard" was published worldwide with the title of "Prisoner of Conscience: My Steps through Insein" by Silkworm, publishing house in Thailand.

She was honored with the 2016 'Disturbing the Peace' award given by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, for her humanitarian values and for having suffered unjust persecution for her beliefs.

In 2016, she was elected to the board of PEN International at 82nd PEN International Congress held in Galician, Spain.