# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saya-zawgyi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:35:46.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saya-zawgyi"
name: "Saya Zawgyi"
slug: "saya-zawgyi"
description: "Saya Zawgyi was a distinguished and leading Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic. He is regarded as the greatest of Myanmar's poets. His name, Zawgyi, refers to a mythical wizard from Burmese mythology. He was one of the leaders of the Hkit san movement in Burmese literature searching for a new style and content before the Second World War, along with Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe and Min Thu Wun. His first hkit san poetry, Padauk pan, was published in Hantha Kyemon pamphlet."
tagline: "Burmese poet and writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Zaw_Gyi%27s_Signature.jpg/330px-Zaw_Gyi%27s_Signature.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-04-12"
deathDate: "1990-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.273686666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "जौग्यी चारेछरा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%89"
    title: "سايا زاوجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawgyi_(writer)"
    title: "Zawgyi (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E5%9F%BA"
    title: "佐基"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%87%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%BA%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AE_(%E1%80%85%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8%E1%80%86%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC)"
    title: "ဇော်ဂျီ (စာရေးဆရာ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8"
    title: "Зоджи"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7429085"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump