The Day After Cyclone Nargis 2
Several hours after Cyclone Nargis hit Yangon, the ancient tamarind tree growing out of the sidewalk of the author's hotel came crashing down on the three-story rooftop, causing the whole structure to shudder.
The Day After Cyclone Nargis
Residents walk through the streets of Yangon the day after the storm flattened trees and knocked out electricity and phone service.
The Cyclone Hits 2
A resident of Yangon clutches an umbrella as Cyclone Nargis sweeps across Myanmar in early May.
The Cyclone Hits
Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar in early May, flooding the streets of Yangon, knocking out electricity and phone service, and killing tens of thousands of people. It was the worst natural history disaster ever recorded in the history of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
Seven Bookstore 2
The long, narrow interior of Seven Bookstore in downtown Yangon.
Seven Bookstore
A hand-written sign invites passersby to visit the Seven Bookstore in Yangon.
Pansodan Street Bookseller
In Yangon, bookstores and magazine stands are ubiquitous. Plastic sheeting protects stacks of books in the open-air stalls along Pansodan Street.
Kyaw Thein Literature
Stacks of books rise to the ceiling of Kyaw Thein Literature, one of the many open-air stalls along the sidewalks of downtown Yangon.
Bagan Bookshop
The Bagan Bookshop is located in two neat rooms on Thirty-seventh Street in Yangon.
An American Didn't Win the Nobel Prize? Big Surprise
A week after Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary for the Swedish Academy and top jury member for the Nobel Prize, criticized American writers in an interview with the Associated Press (AP), the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced. Not surprisingly, it isn't an American. French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio takes literature's highest honor this year for his "poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy," the prize committee said in a statement.
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