She is considered one of the most influential Burmese women writers and won the Myanmar National Literature Award four times.
Her father was Biritsh U Tun and her mother was Daw Mya Shin.
[5] Under her pen name Inya, she began writing poems while attending Yangon University in 1964.
In 1972, she wrote her first novel, Pyauk-thaw-lann-hmar san-ta-war, which received the National Literature Award in 1974.
(At the age of 46) At the time of her death, she was outlived by her husband, Myo Nyunt (also a literary figure), her two sons, and one daughter.