Yangon, Myanmar

Saw Lin

Artist Translator English Teacher

I work across visual art, language, and education. My work explores how people communicate, understand, and express human experience.

Image · Language · Learning

One practice, three forms

Art, translation and teaching

Paintings concerned with emotion, tension, movement and energy.

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Literary, educational, and professional translation across Arakanese, Burmese and English.

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English courses designed to help learners move from understanding English to using it.

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Recently published

A published Arakanese poetry book featuring English translations of selected poems.

George Orwell Why
I Write Myanmar translation by Saw Lin

Featured essay

George Orwell reflects on the experiences, pleasures, and convictions that shaped his writing. Read the essay in Burmese, translated by Saw Lin.

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George Orwell Why I Write Essay · 1946

“My work begins with attention—to images, words, sounds, and experience.”