Pascal Khoo Thwe
{{Short description|Burmese writer (born 1967)}}
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Pascal Khoo Thwe (born 1967)[https://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=1&id=L4sXAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Pascal+Khoo+Thwe%22+1967&q=1967 From the land of green ghosts: a Burmesa odyssey ] p10 is a Burmese author from the minority Padaung people,[https://books.google.com/books?id=tlfhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Pascal+Khoo+Thwe The tablet], Volume 246, Issues 7939–7951, 2002, Page 14 known for his autobiographic writings about growing up in Myanmar under military rule.[https://books.google.com/books?id=MZwU0SNKchoC&dq=%22Pascal+Khoo+Thwe&pg=PA29 Myanmar (Burma)] By Robert Reid, Michael Grosberg 2005 Page 29 His 2002 memoir, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, was awarded the Kiriyama Prize.[https://books.google.com/books?id=7MN9hn2K2XoC&dq=%22Pascal+Khoo+Thwe&pg=PA34 Perspectives on the Novels of Rohinton Mistry] By Jaydipsinh Dodiya 2006
Biography
Thwe was born in Pekon, Shan State, Burma (today called Myanmar).{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
By a chance encounter with John Casey, a Cambridge don, Thwe was rescued{{When|date=January 2025}} from the jungles of Burma, where he and other student refugees were fighting Burmese soldiers for independence. In 1991, he enrolled at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he received his BA in English literature in 1995. His 2002 autobiographical book, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey,[http://www.radionetherlandsarchives.org/pascal-khoo-thwe-the-land-of-green-ghosts/ Pascal Khoo Thwe: The Land of Green Ghosts, Radio Netherlands Archives, October 26 2003] was published by Harper-Collins in 2002.
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External links
- Pascal Khoo Thwe, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (2002), {{ISBN|0-00-711682-9}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=L4sXAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Pascal+Khoo+Thwe]
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008lzmb#synopsis BBC Radio 4: Taking a Stand] – BBC journalist Fergal Keane interviews Pascal Khoo Thwe about his life for a radio programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 18 December 2007.
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Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge