Berlin – Burmese writer Ma Thida doesn’t like to think of herself as exiled.
She left Myanmar in 2021, just a few months after the military seized power in a coup that overthrew the civilian-led government.
And while Ma Thida says it would not be safe for her to return anytime soon, exile implies a permanence the writer isn’t quite comfortable with.
“My aim is not to be exiled – just to keep away from