Wendy Law-Yone

Wendy Law-Yone is a Burmese-American novelist whose books have been translated into many languages and taught in literature, history, and Asian Studies courses in universities throughout Europe and the United States. International awards for her writing include a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Award for Creative Writing, a Harvard Foundation Award for International Literary Arts and Intercultural Relations, a David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of East Anglia, and a Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professorship of World Literature at the University of Berne. Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent (HarperCollins, 2023), is Wendy’s most recent book.

Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

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Novelist Wendy Law-Yone, tracks Aung San Suu Kyi’s transformation from daughter of a national hero to materfamilias of Myanmar, placing her firmly within the context of the Burmese Buddhist notions of nationhood and motherhood and explaining her continuing role as the figurehead of the nation’s struggles.

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Coronavirus, the Novel

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“THE CURIOUS THING ABOUT PANDEMICS,” I read in a back issue of The Guardian, “is that novelists don’t seem to know what to do with them.” Well, that is one of the curious things about pandemics. “But when they have written memorably about them,” the critic continues, “it tends to have been as allegories for … Read more