Bogalay Tint Aung

Sithu
Bogalay Tint Aung
ဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင်
Born
Tint Aung

(1922-06-03)3 June 1922
Bogale, Pyapon District, Ayeyarwady Division, British Burma, British Raj
Died16 December 2021(2021-12-16) (aged 99)
Yangon, Burma
Occupation(s)Composer, director and writer
Years active1940–2021
Notable workPann Wingaba
Nge Kywan Swe
Awards

Bogalay Tint Aung (Burmese: ဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင်; 3 June 1922 – 16 December 2021) was a Burmese composer, director and writer.[1][2] The first recipient of the Myanmar Academy Award for lifetime achievement, Tint Aung was a patron of the Myanmar Motion Picture Organisation.[3]

Early life and education

Tint Aung, the second of six siblings, was born on 3 June 1922 in Bogale, Pyapon District, Ayeyarwady Division to U Ba Thin and Daw Phwar Thein.[4] His younger brother Maung Ko Ko is also a musician.[4]

When a labor strike broke out in Burma, in 1938, Tint Aung dropped out of school in the 8th grade and took part in the revolution. He joined the Burma Independence Army (BIA) in 1942, alongside Bo Aung Myint, Bo San Shar and Bo Than.[5]

Career

Tint Aung made his career debut in 1948 as the author of the play Myat Mon Yadana. He started his stage director career with the 1950 play Apyone Lethsaung (lit. 'Smile Gift').[6] His works include Thet Saing Thu Thoh, New Year Chit Oo, Thanyawzin, Mon Toh Htar Nay, May Myat Nwe, Myet Wun Lae Pyar Pyar, Zayar, Jin Malay Jann, and Mhway Lwon Thih Pann.[5] His 1975 play Nge Kyawn Swe was a remake of the film of the same name.[6]

Pann Wingaba, an anthology of his newspaper articles from 1980 to 1982, won the 1996 Myanmar National Literature Award for belles-lettres.[7] He was also honored with the first-class medals for excellent performance in social field and in arts by the Burmese government.[4]

Tint Aung received the title of Sithu in 2012.[3] In 2018, he was awarded the Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Award for lifetime achievement for the year 2017.[8]

He died in Yangon on 16 December 2021, at the age of 99.[5][9][10][11]

Awards

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Nominated Work Result
1996 Myanmar National Literature Award Belles-lettres Pann Wingaba Won
2012 Order of the Union of Burma Sithu — Won
2017 Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award (Everlasting Outstanding Honorary Award) — Won

References

  1. ^ "အသက် ၁၀၀ နီးပါးရှိပြီဖြစ်သည့် အနုပညာသမားတစ်ဦး၏ ကြိုးပမ်းမှု သို့မဟုတ် မြန်မာ့ရုပ်ရှင်ရာပြည့် ဂုဏ်ပြုသီချင်းရေးဖွဲ့နေသည့် စည်သူ ဒေါက်တာ ဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင်". MDN – Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese).
  2. ^ "ဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင်၏ ဘဝစာမျက်နှာများ". Myanma Radio and television (in Burmese).
  3. ^ a b "တစ်သက်တာရုပ်ရှင်ဆုရှင် စည်သူဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင်ရဲ့ ပုံတူရေးဆွဲပွဲ (သို့) အနုပညာရှင်တို့ ပျော်တဲ့ပွဲ". The Myanmar Times. 27 November 2013.
  4. ^ a b c "စည်သူဒေါက်တာဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင်၏ အနုပညာသည်ဘဝ ဖြတ်သန်းမှုပုံရိပ်များ". MDN – Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese).
  5. ^ a b c "ဂန္ထဝင်အနုပညာရှင် စည်သူဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင်ကွယ်လွန်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  6. ^ a b "စွယ်စုံရ အနုပညာရှင်ကြီး စည်သူဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁၆ ရက် ညပိုင်းက ကွယ်လွန်". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese).
  7. ^ April 2017, ဝေယံအောင် 28 (28 April 2017). "ဒီတပတ်ဖတ်စရာ". ဧရာဝတီ.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "ထာဝရအမေ အများဆုံး ဆွတ်ခူးခဲ့တဲ့ အကယ်ဒမီပွဲ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese).
  9. ^ "တစ်သက်တာ ရုပ်ရှင်ထူးချွန်ဆုရှင် ဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင် ကွယ်လွန်" [Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tint Aung dies]. Radio Free Asia. 17 December 2021.
  10. ^ "ဗိုလ်ကလေးတင့်အောင် ကွယ်လွန်" [Bogalay Tint Aung dies]. ဗွီအိုအေ (in Burmese). VOA News. 18 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Death of Lifetime Artist: Bogalay Tint Aung died at the age of 100". www.myanmaritv.com. Myanmar International TV. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.