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Ludu U Hla ((ビルマ語:လူထုဦးလှ); ; 19 January 1910 – 7 August 1982) was a Burmese journalist, publisher, chronicler, folklorist and social reformer whose prolific writings include a considerable number of path-breaking nonfiction works. He was married to fellow writer and journalist Ludu Daw Amar. He collected oral histories from people in a diverse range of occupations which included a boatmaster on the Irrawaddy, a bamboo raftsman on the Salween, the keeper of a logging elephant, a broker for Steele Bros. (a large trading company during the colonial period), a gambler on horses, a bureaucrat and a reporter. These were published in a series of books titled "I the ------". A library of 43 volumes of folk tales, a total of 1597 stories, that he collected between 1962 and 1977 from most of the ethnic minorities of Burma was a truly Herculean undertaking.〔''Ludu chit tha hmya Ludu U Hla'' (Ludu U Hla, Beloved of the People) in Burmese inc. a small English section 1984,Kyipwa Yay Books,Mandalay 306-307,126,146-149,168,179,170,169,175,115,116,108,415,204-208,73-74,75,357,264-268,271,420,417,421,87 ,90,122,428,416,414,73,418-419,422-423,156,91,107,155,439,122〕 Many of these have been translated into several languages. There are 5 other volumes of folktales from around the world to his credit. During the U Nu era of parliamentary democracy, he spent over three years in Rangoon Central Jail as a political prisoner after publishing a controversial news story in his Mandalay newspaper ''Ludu'' (The People). Whilst in prison he interviewed several inmates and wrote their life stories as told in the first person narrative, the best known collection of which was published in ''The Caged Ones''; it won the UNESCO award for literature in 1958, and has been translated into English. ==''Kyipwayay'' U Hla== Born in Pazun Myaung village near Nyaunglebin in Lower Burma, and educated at the Rangoon Government High School, by the age of 20, U Hla had secured a valuer's position with the Rangoon Municipal Corporation; the Depression had hit Burma culminating in a peasant uprising and the founding of the nationalist ''Dobama Asiayone'' (We Burmans Association). He joined the ''Lungemya Kyipwayay Athin'' (Progress for Youth Club) which started as the Friendly Correspondence Club cum debating society among high school students in 1926, and his high-minded reformist zeal for all-round betterment of the country's youth had remained a lifelong passion since.〔 He lived over the shop in Scott's Market (renamed Bogyoke Market after independence) as a boarder, doubling as librarian, and taught night classes to children from poor families in the neighbourhood. A keen sportsman, he played football for the Municipal team, exercised regularly and remained a teetotaller all his life.〔 In 1932 he managed to take over the publication of the ''Kyipwayay'' (Progress/Growth) magazine after a false start by the chairman U Thein.〔 He had wanted to be a writer and publisher and grabbed the opportunity. The magazine was a success with most of the day's famous writers on board and with an editorial remit of educating young people in self-improvement, health and moral discipline in the struggle for independence and for building a new united Burma. Regular columns such as Maha Swe's ''Nei Thu Yein's Fearless Doctrine'' and Theippan Maung Wa's ''Letter from Maung Than Gyaung'' attracted a large readership.〔 The ''Kyipwayay'' became the vehicle for a new style and content in Burmese literature known as ''Hkit san'' (Testing the Age), a movement started most notably by Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe, Zawgyi, Min Thu Wun,Maung Thuta, Maung Htin and Mya Kaytu.〔 He also wrote articles assuming the pen names Kyipwayay Maung Hla and Maung Kan Kaung.〔 A devout Buddhist and non-violent reformist at heart, he made friends with and his home became a favourite haunt of many politicians such as Aung San, Thakin Than Tun, Thakin Zin and Thakin Ba Koe as well as writers such as Maha Swe, Dagon Taya, Zawana, P Moe Nin, Thukha, Maung Htin and Dr Maung Hpyuu, journalists such as ''Thuriya'' U Thein Maung, cartoonists U Ba Galay, U Hein Soon and U Ba Gyan, artist U Ohn Lwin and weightlifters ''Ka-ya bala'' U Shein, U Zaw Weik and U Ne Win.〔 The ''Thuriya'' (Sun) newspaper was where he had started as a budding writer and where he appeared to have learnt the rudiments of journalism and publishing.〔 U Hla was tall, fair and handsome (Hla incidentally means handsome), and known for his friendly smile, gentle soft-spoken manner, even temper, clean living and generosity.〔 When the second university students strike in history broke out in 1936, he became friendly with one of the best known women student leaders, Amar from Mandalay, whose Burmese translation of ''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis he had published among her other writings in his magazine. They married in 1939 and he moved to Mandalay where he continued to publish the Kyipwayay.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ludu Daw Amar: Speaking Truth to Power by Min Zin )〕 He invited on board upcountry writers such as Shwe Kaingtha (a monk from Sagaing and former archaeologist who was already one of the Kyipwayay regulars under the name ''Yadanabon Hpo Hmatsu'') and Marla, an old school friend of Amar, in addition to the usual stable of writers such as Maha Swe, Zawgyi, Min Thu Wun, Theippan Maung Wa, Zawana, Maung Hpyuu and Maung Htin.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ludu U Hla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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