I met the-then 84 year-old U Win Tin at the end of May 2013, having been sent on a special mission to Myanmar to deliver WAN-IFRA’s Golden Pen of Freedom - a prize he’d won twelve years previously, but never had the opportunity to collect.

"It is fitting, 50 years after the award of only the second-ever Golden Pen to veteran journalist, U Sein Win, that we celebrate once more a laureate from Myanmar. A generation separates the two men, yet common beliefs unite them: a desire for freedom, and the courage to go out into the world and seek it."