Tekkatho Phone Naing

In this Burmese name, Tekkatho is an honorific, not a given name.
In this Burmese name, the given name is Phone Naing. There is no family name.
Tekkatho

Phone Naing
Native name
တက္ကသိုလ် ဘုန်းနိုင်
BornKhin Maung Tint
(1930-01-16)16 January 1930
British Burma
DiedJanuary 2002 (aged 71–72)
Yangon, Myanmar
OccupationAuthor, Poet, Professor
NationalityBurmese
Alma materColumbia University

Tekkatho Phone Naing (Burmese: တက္ကသိုလ် ဘုန်းနိုင်, 16 January 1930 – 2002) was a famous Burmese writer, primarily known for lovelorn stories that were most popular in the 1950s to 1970s. His "sad" stories still represent some of the best popular Burmese story writing in the postwar era.