# Tin Shwe

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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Sayawun
| name        = Tin Shwe
| native_name = {{lang|my|ဆရာဝန် တင်ရွှေ}}
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| birth_name  = Tin Shwe
| birth_date  = 1936
| birth_place = [Moulmein](/source/Moulmein), [British Burma](/source/British_Burma)
| death_date  = {{death year and age|2000|1936}}
| death_place = [Myanmar](/source/Myanmar)
| other_names = 
| known_for   = 
| occupation  = Writer
| parents = Pa<br/>Shin Shin
| spouse = Aye Thant
| children = Tyn Tyn Aye<br/>Thet Thet Shwe<br/>Thet Lwin Shwe
| alma_mater = [Moulmein Intermediate College](/source/Mawlamyine_University)<br/>[Rangoon Medical College](/source/University_of_Medicine_1%2C_Yangon)
| awards = [National Literature Award](/source/Sarpay_Beikman_Manuscript_Awards)
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'''Sayawun Tin Shwe''' ({{langx|my|တင်ရွှေ}}; died December 2000) was a prominent physician and author in [Myanmar](/source/Myanmar).

He was a committee member of the [Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association](/source/Myanmar_Writers_and_Journalists_Association) (MWJA),
and founded the Tin Shwe publishing house.

His widow, Aye Thant, established the annual [Sayawun Tin Shwe Award](/source/Sayawun_Tin_Shwe_Award) in his memory.
This award, given with the assistance of the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association, gives awards for new books to encourage the development of Myanmar literature.<ref name=Aung2010/>

Sayawun Tin Shwe was Medical Superintendent of the Htaukkyant Leprosarium, near Rangoon.
He wrote fiction as well as medical articles.

In 1963, Tin Shwe won the [National Literature Award](/source/Sarpay_Beikman_Manuscript_Awards) in the General Knowledge Literature category.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}
In August 1996 Dr. Tin Shwe of the Medical Research Department was a member of a delegation of Myanmar writers that visited Russia.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/BPS96-08.pdf
 |work="The New Light of Myanmar
 |volume=X |issue=8 |date=August 1996
 |title=BURMA PRESS SUMMARY
 |accessdate=2012-02-20}}</ref>
In June 2000 Tin Shwe was Chairman of the MWJA Health and Welfare Work Committee.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar-news-2000/myanmar-news-n000620.htm
 |work=[New Light of Myanmar](/source/New_Light_of_Myanmar)
 |title=Health and Welfare Work Committee of MWJA Central Body holds a coord meeting
 |date=20 June 2000}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |title=The Big Haunted House and Other Stories
 |ISBN=955-9043-22-6 |publisher=Sri Lanka National Commission for UNESCO
 |year=1983
 |author=Sayawin Tin Shwe|display-authors=etal}}
*{{cite book |author=Sayawin Tin Shwe |language=Burmese
 |title=Medical doctors in post-1947 Burma}}
*{{cite book |author=Sayawin Tin Shwe |language=Burmese
 |title=Medicinal plants from Burma and other countries; their properties and uses}}
*{{cite book |author=Sayawin Tin Shwe |language=Burmese
 |title=Biographies of pioneers in medical sciences in Burma}}

==References==
{{Reflist |refs=
<ref name=Aung2010>{{cite journal
 |journal     = Myanmar Times
 |url         = http://www.mmtimes.com/2010/timeout/513/t51304.html
 |title       = Dr Tin Shwe Awards announced
 |author      = Nay Nwe Moe Aung
 |volume      = 26
 |issue       = 513
 |year        = 2010
 |accessdate  = 2012-02-20
 |url-status     = dead
 |archiveurl  = https://archive.today/20130103193515/http://www.mmtimes.com/2010/timeout/513/t51304.html
 |archivedate = 2013-01-03
}}</ref>
}}

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Category:2000 deaths
Category:20th-century Burmese writers
Category:Leprologists
Category:1936 births
Category:University of Medicine 1, Yangon alumni
Category:People from Mawlamyine
Category:20th-century Burmese medical doctors

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