Bertil Lintner
Bertil Lintner is a Swedish journalist living in Thailand. He has reported on since the early 1980s. Bertil has written ten books and numerous articles on Asian current affairs and organised crime. Although blacklisted by the Burmese Junta in 1989, he remains one of the best-informed observers and sharpest critics on Burmese politics. Bertil tells the Browser which books to pick about Burma for a good introduction to an ethnically diverse country.
Bertil Lintner on Wikipedia
The Battle for Thailand (Foreign Affairs)
Books by Bertil Lintner
Outrage
by Bertil Lintner
This is another important book because it documents a really major event in Burmese history and there are very few books like this. This was 1988 when there was a nationwide uprising where the government killed about 3,000 people.
Interviews with Bertil Lintner
The best books on Burma, recommended by Bertil Lintner
The Swedish Journalist says Burma has always played its neighbours against each other and managed to stay neutral. That neutrality is gone now. It is not so much a client as a close ally of China
Interviews where books by Bertil Lintner were recommended
The best books on Burma, recommended by Emma Larkin
The American writer has an obsession with recording Burma’s vanishing stories before the current regime’s actions result in the rewriting of Burmese history. She chooses five books on the real Burma
