Abstract

• Nowadays the old Myanmar Magazines are very rare but those resemble Myanmar social life and custom including the situation of politics and social affairs of colonial period as well as of Independence period. This research attempts to study and focus on the Oway Magazine, a famous old Myanmar Magazine published from 1931 to 1961. It was fostered as the growth of patriotism and as leader of students’ strength. This paper reveals special appearance, background history, editors and editorials of the Oway Magazine, and different kinds of literary works appeared in this Magazine. Literature survey method is applied in this research. The emphasis is put to describe the role of the Oway Magazine in Myanmar literature, to know writings of authors and how to affect its influence upon national movement, and to express it was important for nation and nationalities. So, it is useful for scholars and researchers who doing researches in several topics.