San San Nweh
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San San Nweh is a Burmese writer and journalist.
She was the first woman in the country to work as a journalist and was editor-in-chief of two journals - Gita Ppade-tha and Einmet-hpu.
She was imprisoned in 1994 on charges of anti-governmental intentions and providing information about human rights violations in Myanmar to a United Nations official. She was released in 2001.
San San Nweh has won numerous awards for her work, including a PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award in 1995 and a Reporters Without Borders-Fondation de France Prize in 1999. In 2001, she and U Win Tin were jointly awarded the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award.
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