Telegraph aung san suu kyi biography book

  • With a court due to deliver the verdict in her trial tomorrow, Ms Suu Kyi is stocking up on books, including a biography of Winston Churchill.
  • This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016.
  • Tom Payne reviews Perfect Hostage: a Life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle.

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    Review

    A well structured and literate account of her life ― Independent

    Richly detailed and briskly paced, with a keen sense of place... This thoughtful book is an important contribution to our knowledge of a little-known land ― Sunday Telegraph

    Wintle's intelligent biography describes the immense personal sacrifices Suu Kyi has made for her cause, but also, questions the "intransigence" of her ongoing non-violent protest. ― FT

    Comprehensively researched ― Literary Review

    What Justin Wintle's new biography captures - in great detail and considerable length - is the story and the character of the woman behind the image of a valiant, but so far unsuccessful fighter against tyranny ― Sunday Life (Belfast)

    About the Author

    Justin Wintle was educated at Stowe School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he holds degrees in Modern History. The many books he has written include Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country, The VietNam Wars, Furious Interiors: Wales, R. S. Thomas and God

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    Aung San Suu Kyi

    Burmese politician (born 1945)

    In this Burmese name, the given name is Aung San Suu Kyi. There is no family name.

    DawAung San Suu Kyi[a] (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and political activist who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since the party's founding in 1988 and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from 2011 to 2023.[4][5][6] She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s.

    The youngest daughter of Aung San, Father of the Nation of modern-day Myanmar, and Khin Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon, British Burma. After graduating from the University of Delhi in 1964 and St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1968, she worked at the United Nations for three years. She marri

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    Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an iconic figure. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, she has steadfastly opposed Burma s brutal military regime, instituted by General Ne Win in 1962, since 1988. But her leadership of the Burmese democracy movement, and her ardent advocacy of human rights, have landed her in desperate trouble.

    In 1989 she was placed under house arrest for the first time. Today she fryst vatten again beneath house fängelse, seemingly for good. In the years between she has faced constant physical and psychological harassment. In 2003, during an attempt on her life at Depayin, she witnessed the massacre of scores of her följare.

    Aung San Suu Kyi has also endured involuntary separation from her family her English husband Dr Michael Aris, and their two sons. Aris s death in 1999 was yet another cruel twist of the knife. But having given her commitment to her people, ingenting can deflect Suu Kyi from the course she has adopt