[2][3][4][5] Kyaw Win, the eldest of five siblings, was born on 3 June 1945 in Myitkyina, Kachin State.
[5] In 1968, he worked as a tutor at Yangon University from which he completed his bachelor's and a master's degree in anthropology.
Based on his anthropological studies, he changed his pen name to Manutha Kyaw Win in 1968.
He won the Myanmar National Literature Award again for his book Nout Aww Naga in 1977.
He was awarded the Sarpay Beikman of Literature Prize for his manuscript "Rough travel, strange tradition" in 1979 and Pakokku U Ohn Pe Full Length Novel award for Aoe Chanpae Myar That Thay Htarr in 1955.