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Interview: Prominent author says dictatorships’ habits die hard in places like...
Borderless News Online recently caught up with critically acclaimed Burmese-American author Wendy Law-Yone. Briefly imprisoned in Myanmar when the now former ruling junta took power in the 1960s, she escaped the country and settled in the United States, where she would pen several books and later receive a National Endowment for the Arts award for creative writing. Law-Yone has expressed criticism of Myanmar's current government, and concern over the country's trajectory, even in the lead-up to this weekend's crucial elections.
