Category: RU Saya

by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

He is a retired Professor of Maths. He studied in Rangoon and France. He wrote about Maths, Education and Vispassana Meditation. He passed away at the age of 81.

He is the only son of two well known writers Saya U Khin Maung Latt and Daw Khin Myo Chit.

U Khin Maung Latt taught English at Rangoon University and at a private tuition school co-founded by him and U Thein Maung (Htin Lin, National Literary Award Winner). He was the inaugural Chief Editor of WPD (Working People’s Daily).

Daw Khin Myo Chit’s works include “Colorful Burma”, “Heroes of Ancient Bagan” and an award winning short story.

The Centennial of the two writers was celebrated in 2015. (Note: Bogyoke Aung San was also born in 1915).

Family of writers

• Parents : U Khin Maung Latt and Daw Khin Myo Chit
• Spouse : Daw Shwe Yi Win
• Children : Maung Maung Win (Maung Yit) & Mi Mi Win (Junior Win)

ဒေါက်တာခင်မောင်ဝင်း (သင်္ချာ)

အသက် ၈၁ နှစ် ရန်ကုန်အချိန် ဩဂုတ် ၃၊ ည ၁၁ နာရီ ၁၅ ခန့်က ၊ ရန်ကုန်နေအိမ်မှာ ကွယ်လွန်ပါတယ်။

ဝိုင်းဝန်းကြသူ အားလုံးကို ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါတယ်။

He’s got a good life and he’s got a good fight.

သူဘ၀ကိုကောင်းမွန်စွာ နေထိုင်ပြီး ကောင်းမွန်စွာ ရင်ဆိုင်သွားခဲ့ပါတယ်။

သား – မောင်ရစ် + မေသန်းဌေး

သမီး – ဂျူနီယာဝင်း

မြေး – ပွင့်ဖြူနန္ဒာ

• U Khin Maung Latt taught English at Rangoon University and later at his Private Tuition School with U Thein Maung (Htin Lin). He also served as the first Chief Editor of Working People’s Daily.
• Daw Khin Myo Chit was active during Burma’s Fight for Independence. She is an award winning author. She published several books about Burmese culture.
• Dr. Khin Maung Win received his doctorate from France. After retirement as Professor of Mathematics, he wrote articles covering education and meditation.
• Tekkatho Shwe Yee Win’s works appeared in magazines (e.g. Shwe Thway).
• Maung Yit (U Maung Maung Win) is a cartoonist and co-founder of Moemaka.
  Daw May Than Htay taught at SJSU.
• Junior Win (Daw Mi Mi Win) is a bilingual author. She won a prize for her book about her paternal grandparents (published for the 100th birthday celebration).