Ma Sandar

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| name = Ma Sandar
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| birth_name = Cho Cho Tin

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1947|9|4}}

| birth_place = Rangoon, British Burma
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| notableworks = Life's Dream, Flower's Dream
Short Stories Collection 3
Hexagon

| occupation = novelist, architect

| genre = Romance, Short story

| period = 1972–present

|alma_mater = Rangoon Institute of Technology

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| awards = Myanmar National Literature Award (1994, 1999, 2002)

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Ma Sandar ({{langx|my|မစန္ဒာ}}; born 4 September 1947) is a well known Burmese writer.{{cite book | title=နှစ်ဆယ် ရာစု မြန်မာ စာရေး ဆရာ များနှင့် စာစု စာရင်း | publisher=ပညာရွှေတောင် စာအုပ်တိုက် | author=ပြန်ကြားရေးနှင့် ပြည်သူ့ ဆက်ဆံရေး ဦးစီး ဌာန (ရုံးချုပ်) စာတည်း အဖွဲ့ | year=2003}}{{cite news |title=School becomes 23rd building on heritage list |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/news/school-becomes-23rd-building-heritage-list.html |accessdate=21 November 2018 |work=The Myanmar Times |ref=Among its most distinguished alumni are famous writers Hsu Shin and Ma Sandar, historian Myoma Myint Kywe; and Maung Maung Kha, Myanmar’s first physicist.}} With a clear and engaging style, her works reflect the daily struggles of the people living in Myanmar. Her novella, Life's Dream, Flower's Dream won the 1994 Myanmar National Literature Award for novella. Her short stories collection, Short Stories Collection 3 won the 1999 Myanmar National Literature Award for Collected Short Stories. Another novella, Hexagon won the 2002 National Literature Award for novella. 10 of her novels have been made into movies.

Early life and education

She was born in Yangon and attended the Myoma All-Girls High School. She graduated in 1965, and her first short story, Me, the Teacher was published in a magazine in the same year. She attended Rangoon Institute of Technology with a major in architecture. After graduating, she worked in the Ministry of Construction, Architecture Team 2. Her first novel Don't Know Because I am Young was published in 1972. Throughout her life, she has produced so far, over 100 short short stories and short stories, 2 novellas and 13 novels.{{cite web |url=http://www.freemyanmarbook.com/ebook.php?wname=18 |title= Free Myanmar Book|accessdate=2016-11-03}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sMZy_GlUSgoC |title= Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia |isbn= 0472067893 |accessdate=2016-11-03|last1= Yamada |first1= Teri Shaffer |year= 2002 |publisher= University of Michigan Press }}