Orwell's Burmese Days wins Burmese literary award

       Yes, Orwell's Burmese Days came out in 1934, but as Kyaw Phyo Tha reports in The Irrawaddy:

Nearly eight decades after George Orwell's Burmese Days first hit bookshelves, the book has won the highest literary award in the country where it is set: Burma.

       It won the: "the 2012 National Literary Award's informative literature (translation) category" -- one of sixteen different categories, and not even the one for 'creative literature' (a translation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment won that one), but still .....
       Apparently:

Burmese Days was also translated in the 1950s and 1960s. But, according to Maung Myint Kywe, all editions were pulped.

       Still: certainly good to see that this (and other previously unpublishable work, by Orwell and others) is being made available in Burmese.
       Get your copy of the English original at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- or check out Emma Larkin's Finding George Orwell in Burma (a.k.a. Secret Histories).
       And in The New York Times' Travel-section Lawrence Osborne recently wrote about being In Myanmar, Retracing George Orwell's Steps.