Thitsar Ni

In this Burmese name, the given name is Thitsar Ni. There is no family name.

Thitsar Ni (Burmese: သစ္စာနီ; born 1946 in Rangoon) is a Burmese poet and writer, known for spearheading post-modern Burmese poetry since the 1970s.^[1][2][3] He has published more than 30 books under several pen names, spanning genres including poetry, short stories, literary criticism, science fiction, and religion, philosophy, and world politics.^[3] In 2011, he founded a social welfare organization, Kusala Parahita (ကုသလပရဟိတ), with singer Ratha.^[4] After witnessing the Hlaingthaya massacre in March 2021, he wrote a poem, "Hlaingthaya," which was published in a 2022 poetry anthology, Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring.^[5][2] Thitsar Ni is a Buddhist.^[6]

Thitsar Ni
သစ္စာနီ
Born	1946 (1946) (age 79) Rangoon, British Burma
Occupations	Poet writer

Works

• The Time for Fetching Water (1965)
• Myinsaing Archery (1978)
• Walking Out of My Own Skin
• Redundant Sentences
• 21st Album
• Hlaingthaya