Win Pe

Not to be confused with Win Pe Myint.
In this Burmese name, the given name is Win Pe. There is no family name.
Win Pe
ဝင်းဖေ
Born1935 (age 90–91)
Mandalay, British Burma
EducationStudied with Ba Thet and Kin Maung (Bank)
Known forPainting, Film Director, Short Story Writer
MovementModernism
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox person with deprecated parameter "nationality". It should be removed.

Win Pe (Burmese: ဝင်းဖေ; born 16 June 1935) is one of Myanmar’s most celebrated living artists. Along with his close friends Kin Maung Yin and Paw Oo Thett, Win Pe was a leader of Myanmar’s modern art movement in the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a successful film director, winning Myanmar’s equivalent of the Academy Award in 1981. He is also a respected short story writer.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.