A panel of eight judges from Swesone Media Group and from the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association chose the winners.
The 79-year-old writer and historian Khin Maung Nyunt won the lifetime achievement prize.
Maung Tun Lwin (Meteorology) won the Science knowledge prize for The Girl Called La Niña and Articles about Natural Disasters.
Minister for Information Brigadier-General Kyaw Hsan attended the prize presentation ceremony.
Winners were:[4] The sixth Thuta Swesone Literary Award, for Burmese books published in 2009, were announced on 20 April 2011.