Pascal Khoo Thwe (born 1967)[1] is a Burmese author from the minority Padaung people,[2] known for his autobiographic writings about growing up in Myanmar under military rule.
[4] Thwe was born in Pekon, Shan State, Burma (today called Myanmar).
[citation needed] By a chance encounter with John Casey, a Cambridge don, Thwe was rescued[when?]
In 1991, he enrolled at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he received his BA in English literature in 1995.
His 2002 autobiographical book, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey,[5] was published by Harper-Collins in 2002.