Anna Allott pictured with literary critic Aung Thinn and writer Mya Than Tint in Yangon in the 1990s. (Supplied)

The accidental Burmese scholar: Remembering Anna Allott

Anna Joan Allott, who died last month aged 93, spent half a century schooling British diplomats in the Burmese language and studying its grammar, but her relationship with Myanmar started almost by accident.

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