Which English novelist had an early career as a policeman in Burma?
"Rangoon, under the direction in early 1887 of Surg. Patrick O'Sullivan. Though the country prospered, the Burmese people largely failed to reap the rewards. (See George Orwell's novel ""Burmese Days"" for a fictional account of the British in Burma.) An account by a British official describing the conditions of the Burmese people's livelihoods in 1941 describes the Burmese hardships as they must quickly adapt to foreign trade: “Foreign landlordism and the operations of foreign moneylenders had led to an increasing exportation of a considerable proportion of the country’s resources and to the progressive impoverishment of the agriculturist and of the"
"he resigned from the Indian Imperial Police to become a writer, with effect from 12 March 1928 after five-and-a-half years of service. He drew on his experiences in the Burma police for the novel ""Burmese Days"" (1934) and the essays ""A Hanging"" (1931) and ""Shooting an Elephant"" (1936). In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner. He visited his old tutor Gow at Cambridge for advice on becoming a writer. In 1927 he moved to London. Ruth Pitter, a family acquaintance, helped him find lodgings, and"
"(1870-1875) assigned the first police officer to be stationed at Maliwan, a village 24 miles north of current Victoria Point. Perhaps the most famous policeman in Burma from this period is the author George Orwell, who in 1922 joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. On 16 March 1988 following the killing of two students during the pro-democracy demonstrations, students marching on Prome Road were confronted near Inya Lake by the ""Lon Htein"" security force riot police and many beaten to death or drowned. The national police are made up of several smaller entities, including The current Director General of"
"but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen"". Orwell spent five years from 1922 to 1927 as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police force in Burma, (now Myanmar). Burma had become part of the British Empire during the 19th century as an adjunct of British India. The British colonized Burma in stages—it was not until 1885 when they captured the royal capital of Mandalay that Burma as a whole could be declared part of the British Empire. Migrant workers from India and China supplemented the native Burmese population. Although Burma was the wealthiest country in"
"by Orwell in ""The Listener"", published 9 March 1938: A new edition of the book was published in 1945. It contains an introduction written by the author dated 14 May 1945, and commenting on events in Burma since the book was originally published. Trials in Burma Trials in Burma is a memoir by Maurice Collis, an English author of Irish origin who served in Burma in the Indian Civil Service under the British Empire written in 1937 describing events in 1929-30. After postings at Arakan, Sagaing and elsewhere, Collis was district magistrate in Rangoon in 1929-1930, a period when relations"
"Burma while attached to the 14th Army as an intelligence officer. Some of these experiences found fictional expression in his first, pseudonymous novel, ""The Body Fell on Berlin"" (1943), written as Richard Lakin (Lakin appears as his middle name in the German edition of ""The World of Suzie Wong""). In 1948 he eloped with and married Anne Cumming, who had previously been married to Henry Landall Lyon Young. Richard and Felicity Mason separated in 1958 and were later divorced. Cumming was notoriously a sexual free spirit, who was best known in ""avant garde"" literary circles. The two traveled through most"
"Beth Ellis Elizabeth Ellis (1874–1913) was a British novelist and travel writer. The daughter of a prominent English solicitor, Ellis was born in the northern town of Wigan, near Manchester, in 1874. She studied English literature at Oxford University in the era before women were permitted to take degrees there. In 1899 she published ""An English girl's first impressions of Burmah,"" a humorous account of a recent six-month stay in what is today Myanmar, then part of British India. Six novels and a collection of short stories followed. Most of these books were historical romances. Though she married in 1908,"
"for seven months at a jungle mission station in a remote village about from Ranchi, India. Baxter's first novel, ""Look Down in Mercy"", published in 1951, drew on his military experience. Set in Burma and other Far East locations during World War II, it centres on the homosexual relationship between an officer, Tony Kent, and his batman Anson. Although Kent, a British officer stationed in Burma, loves his wife back in England, he seduces a Eurasian nurse. After the brief affair, he feels guilty and hates both the girl and himself. Later, during an especially stressful period, he spends a"
"Burmese Days Burmese Days is a novel by English writer George Orwell. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1934. It is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India – ""a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj."" At its centre is John Flory, ""the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature."" Orwell's first novel, it describes ""corruption and imperial bigotry"" in a society where, ""after all, natives were natives—interesting, no"
"which three Anglo-Burmese wars took place, and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. It was administered as a province of India until 1937, when it became a separate, self-governing colony, attaining its independence on January 4, 1948. With a strong interest in the lives of the working class, Orwell—born in India to a middle-class family, but brought up in Britain—held the post of assistant superintendent in the British Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. ""Moulmein used to be full of elephants..."" [employed to] haul logs in the timber firms. ""Ordinary tamed elephants have been part of Burmese"
"1926-27 in the Indian Imperial Police. The British Club (including active tennis court), police station, and town jail are locations mentioned in the novel that can still be visited today. More accounts on this section is readable in Emma Larkin's ""Finding George Orwell in Burma"". Katha links with prominent Burmese writers such as Shwe U Daung, Thaw Tar Swe, ""Theik-Pan"" Muu Tin, and AFPFL leader Kyaw Nyein from Stable faction. Katha, Myanmar Katha (, ) is a town in Sagaing Region, Myanmar, on the west side of the Irrawaddy River on a bluff with an average elevation of . Most"
"Imperial Police, in Burma, from October 1920 to December 1927, eventually resigning while on leave in England, having attained the rank of Assistant District Superintendent at District Headquarters, first in Insein, and later at Moulmein. He wrote of how having been in contact with, in his own words, ""the dirty work of Empire at close quarters"" had affected his personal, political and social outlook. Some of the works referring to his experiences include ""A Hanging"" (1931), set in the notorious Insein Prison, and his novel ""Burmese Days"" (1934). Likewise, although he wrote that, ""I loved Burma and the Burman and"
"until the end of the war. On January 17, 1946, he was awarded an OBE for his service in Burma. After a spell as a staff officer in GHQ India in Delhi, he then served as an instructor at the British Army Staff College, Camberley. He left the army after this posting, and moved to the United States, where he attempted to set up a business promoting walking tours in the Himalayas, one of his hobbies. The business was not a success and, to make ends meet, he decided to write of his experiences in the army. When his novels"
"short stories were also published, bringing the total of Burma's adventures to 38. The comic artist Jacques Tardi adapted some of Malet's books, much to the author's approval. Malet claimed that Tardi was the sole person to have visually understood his books. Tardi also provided cover illustrations for the Fleuve Noir editions of the novels, which were published from the 1980s onward. Léo Malet Léo Malet (7 March 1909 – 3 March 1996) was a French crime novelist and surrealist. Leo Malet was born in Montpellier. He had little formal education and began work as a cabaret singer at ""La"
"captive for two years before being released in 1973. His experience in combat served as inspiration for his numerous war novels, for which he became famous. Prajim Wongsuwan Prajim Wongsuwan (, 13 August 1938 – 20 January 1990), also known by the pen name Sayumphu Thotsaphon (), was a Thai novelist and sprinter. Prajim Wongsuwan was born in Nakhon Ratchasima. He graduated school from Ratchasima Wittayalai School and subsequently enlisted in the Army Non Commissioned Officer School. Under the army's employment, he competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He later left the"
"James George Scott Sir (James) George Scott (pseudonym Shway Yoe, 25 December 1851 – 4 April 1935) was a Scottish journalist and colonial administrator who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma, and in addition introduced football aka soccer to Burma. He was born in Dairsie, the second son of a Presbyterian minister. His elder brother was Robert Forsyth Scott, who was to become Master of St John's College, Cambridge. Both brothers were educated in Stuttgart, then the capital of Württemberg. He worked first as a journalist. For the London ""Evening Standard"" he covered the reprisals for the murder of"
"massacre of pro-democracy activists in October 1973, the massacre of students at Thammasat University in October 1976 and the killing of protesters in the streets of Bangkok in May 1992. His short stories in ""Tales of Thailand"" and ""People of Esarn - The Damned of Thailand & The Kingdom in Conflicts"" deal with the subjects of deforestation, child trade, slavery, prostitution, sex tourism, drug trade, land loss, forced relocation and pollution. Pira Sudham (Pira Canning Sudham) has lived over twenty years in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and in the UK, writing short stories, poems, and his first novel, ""Monsoon"
"was prepared to publish ""Burmese Days"" provided that Orwell was able to demonstrate it was not based on real people. Extensive checks were made in colonial lists that no British individuals could be confused with the characters. Many of the main European names have since been identified in the ""Rangoon Gazette"" and U Po Kyin was the name of a Burmese officer with him at the Police Training School in Mandalay. Gollancz brought out the English version on 24 June 1935. ""Burmese Days"" is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada, based on Kathar (formerly spelled"
"rice—half the world's supply. Orwell served in a number of locations in Burma. Having spent a year of police training in Mandalay and Maymyo, his postings included Myaungmya, Twante, Syriam, Insein—(north of Rangoon, site of the colony's most secure prison, and now Burma's most notorious jail),—Moulmein, and Kathar. Kathar with its luxuriant vegetation, described by Orwell with relish, provided the physical setting for the novel. ""Burmese Days"" was several years in the writing. Orwell was drafting it in Paris during the time he spent there from 1928 to 1929. He was still working on it in 1932 at Southwold while"
"Britain in 1929, served as a district officer in rural Burma during the colonial period. He wrote a series of small sketches based on his observations of rural life, many of which were critical of political and economic institutions, both colonial and indigenous, such as the following examples. A collection of 36 of these short stories, published between 1929 and 1941 mostly in ""Ganda Lawka"", became prescribed school text in the 1960s published by Sarpay Beikman Books. His letters to ""Kyipwayay"" U Hla between 1933 and 1942 were published by the latter, subsequently known as Ludu U Hla, 3 decades"
"to painting. His younger brothers were the writer John Stewart Collis and Robert Collis, a notable doctor and author; John and Robert were twins. Maurice Collis Maurice Stewart Collis (10 January 1889 – 12 January 1973) was an administrator in Burma (Myanmar) when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects. He was born in Dublin, the son of an Irish solicitor, and went to Rugby School in 1903 and then in 1907 to the University of Oxford, where he studied history. He entered the Indian Civil Service in"
"Munro was educated at Pencarwick School in Exmouth and then as a boarder at Bedford School. In 1887, after his retirement, his father returned from Burma and embarked upon a series of European travels with Hector and his siblings. Hector followed his father in 1893 into the Indian Imperial Police and was posted to Burma, but successive bouts of fever meant his return home after only fifteen months. In 1896, he decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Munro started his writing career as a journalist for newspapers such as the ""Westminster Gazette"", the ""Daily"
"The Burman: His Life and Notions The Burman: His Life and Notions (1882) is a book about the peoples and customs of Burma (now Myanmar). First published under the pseudonym Shway Yoe, the book was written by the Scottish journalist and British Colonial administrator James George Scott. The book caused a sensation when it was first published because it was considered impossible that a Burman could write so well in English - Shway Yoe's unbiased tone and positive curiosity is also one reason that the author was presumed Burmese by the British. The book is most noteworthy in the fact"
"Herbert Thirkell White Sir Herbert Thirkell White (1855–1931) was the Lieutenant Governor of the British Indian province of Burma (1905–1910) and the author of several books on Burma, the best known of which is the classic, ""A Civil Servant in Burma"" (E. Arnold, 1913), which is based on the 32 years (1878–1910) he spent as a civil servant in that province. White also authored the fourth volume ""Burma"" of the four volume series ""Provincial Geographies of India"" which was published between 1913-23 from the Cambridge University Press under the editorship of Thomas Henry Holland. The son of Richard White, he"
"Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse Pearse Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse Pearse, also known as Mabel Cosgrove and as Mrs. or Princess Chantoon, was an Irish writer who married Prince Chantoon, the nephew of the King of Burma. She is known for her novels about Burma, particularly ""A Marriage in Burmah"" and for a controversy surrounding the authorship of ""For Love of the King"" a play by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. Mabel Cosgrove was born in Ireland in 1872. In 1893 or 1894 she married Prince Chantoon, a nephew of a hereditary king of Arakan. In a checkered life, she wrote several books,"
"was young, but he never gave up and Burma owes its first novel to him. James Hla Kyaw James Hla Kyaw (1866-1919), also known as U Hla Kyaw (), was a pioneer Burmese novelist and author of the first Burmese novel titled ""Maung Yin Maung, Ma Me Ma"". Burmese novels had existed before but they were written in verse not in prose. Most of these novels were based on Buddhism, myth and legend and history of Burma; therefore there were no novels that were based on everyday lives like ""Maung Yin Maung, Ma Me Ma"". Born in 1866 to a"
"with the help of some friends and with the danger of some enemies. ""Elephant Run"" was chosen as one of the ALA Best Books for Young Adults in 2009, and received several nominations for book awards. Nicholas Gillis Freestone is sent to Burma after his mother's apartment is destroyed in the Battle of Britain. He meets Nang the foreman, his daughter Mya, and his son Indaw, a mahout. At the time of Nick's arrival, there is much talk about the recent Japanese bombing of Rangoon, predicting the British defenses in Burma will soon fall. The next day Nick is at"
"Elephant Run Elephant Run is a young adult historical novel by Roland Smith, first published in 2007. It takes place mainly in Burma in the midst of World War II. The main character is Nicholas Freestone, a 14-year-old boy, tamed and simple, who is sent to live by his mother with his father on the family teak plantation, which requires toughness and strength, to escape the bombing in London. When the Japanese invade Burma, they take over the plantation, sending Nick's father, Jackson Theodore Freestone III, to a prison camp. Leaving Nick to escape and try to save his father"
"his area of operations. <br> <br> <br> Edgar Peacock Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Henry William Peacock, (11 February 1893 – March 1955) was a decorated British Officer commanding special forces operations behind Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War. He had previously served in Burma for many years as Deputy Conservator of Forests, and Game Warden. Edgar Peacock was born in Nagpur, India on 11 February 1893. He entered the Indian Forest Service in 1914, training at the Forest Research Institute College at Dehra Dun and, upon graduation, took up his first posting in the Hinthada area. In 1924,"
"that women who have been widowed in this attack - and impoverished by the looting that Mulvaney relates - would laugh at the naked invaders. George Orwell, while serving with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, observed this type of behaviour and found it extremely distasteful. Such experiences provided some of the material for his later literary career. All quotations in this article have been taken from the ""Uniform Edition"" of ""Plain Tales from the Hills"" published by Macmillan & Co., Limited in London in 1899. The text is that of the third edition (1890), and the author of the"
"Trials in Burma Trials in Burma is a memoir by Maurice Collis, an English author of Irish origin who served in Burma in the Indian Civil Service under the British Empire written in 1937 describing events in 1929-30. After postings at Arakan, Sagaing and elsewhere, Collis was district magistrate in Rangoon in 1929-1930, a period when relations between Burmese, Indians and British became particularly difficult. In ""Trials in Burma"" he gives special attention to the political trial of J. M. Sen Gupta, mayor of Calcutta, for sedition in impromptu speeches made during a brief visit to Rangoon in 1930; also"
"of gender and colonialism"". Bithia Mary Croker Bithia Mary (or May) Croker (née Sheppard, born c. 1848 in Kilgefin, County Roscommon, Ireland – died in London, 20 October 1920) was an Irish novelist, most of whose work concerns life and society in British India. Her 1917 novel ""The Road to Mandalay"", set in Burma, was the uncredited basis for a 1926 American silent film, of which only excerpts survive. She was also a notable writer of ghost stories. Bithia was the only daughter of Rev. William Sheppard (died 1856), the Anglican Church of Ireland rector of Kilgefin, County Roscommon, who"
"novel, James Hla Kyaw's hero Maung Yin Maung forgave them all, as should be done according to the teachings of the Buddha. The settings were completely different just as the characters were. His novel became a best-seller as Burma's first romantic novel. It was first published in 1904 at No. 71, Phayre Street by Friend of Burma Press with 12 black and white photographs and has since been reprinted six times. Today, over 100 years later, the first novel ever published in Burma is set to hit the big screen. The Moe Kaung Kin Movie Production Company has taken on"