Tun Aung Chain

Saw Tun Aung Chain is a Burmese historian and academic at the University of Yangon, known for his scholarship on Burmese history.

Early life and education Tun Aung Chain was born in 1933, in the southern town of Mergui, British Burma (now Myeik, Myanmar). Tun's father, Ba Than Chain, was a civil surgeon from Bassein (now Pathein).

Tun's nonfiction book, Broken Glass: Pieces of Myanmar History, won a Sayawun Tin Shwe Award in 2014. In 2018, he was awarded a Myanmar National Literature Award for lifetime achievement, alongside Tin Maung Myint.

Publications

Shwedagon (1996) Selected Writings of Tun Aung Chain (2004) Broken Glass: Pieces of Myanmar History (2004) Chronicle of Ayutthaya : a translation of the Yodaya Yazawin (2005) A Chronicle of the Mons (2010) Texts and Images: Glimpses of Myanmar History (2011) Flowing Waters: Dipping into Myanmar History (2013) The Great Chronicle 1597-1711 by U Kala (translation) (2016) Founders (2021)