Burmese-born Wendy Law-Yone is a critically acclaimed novelist whose novels, The Coffin Tree, Irrawaddy Tango, and The Road to Wanting, all describe the psychological effects of displacement and alienation brought about by political upheaval.

Wendy’s first non-fiction book, a memoir of her father, the legendary journalist and revolutionary E.M. Law-Yone, will be published by Chatto & Windus in 2011. Based on notebooks entrusted to her shortly before her father’s death, the memoir spans a period of Burmese history that begins in the last days of British colonial rule, and continues into the current military dictatorship. It also traces the family's subsequent exile in the United States, and is framed by the author's journey to come to terms with her father's weighty legacy.

A US citizen, Wendy is now a permanent UK resident and lives in London.

Read article 'Miracles do happen, even in a police state': My childhood in Burma by Wendy Law-Yone, from The Observer, Sunday 17 October 2010