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Great Mongolian writer’s 110th birth anniversary marked
VideoToday is a birth day of Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, founder of the Mongolian contemporary literature.
Mongolians are hosting a wide rage of cultural events in commemoration of the 110th birth anniversary of our Great Writer. Namely, the “Unset sun”, “Genius of the Mongolian people” and “the Story of Stones” games have staged at the Academic theater of drama. The life and works of the great phenomenon can be learnt through a photo exhibition. A scientific conference and a ceremony of laying wreathes at the Monument to Natsagdorj were organized as well.
D.Natsagdorj was born on November 17, 1906 in Gun Galuutai, in present Bayandelger soum of Tuv province in a poor, but noble family and died on July 13, 1937. He had studied in Russia and Germany where he learnt deep the western culture. Natsagdorj is fame for tens of his poems and games as Three sad hills and My homeland and short stories such as White moon and black tears and Dark rock.
This is Natsagdorj who was the first to introduce the Queen of Spades and the Duel by A.S.Pushkin, The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe and many other masterpieces to the Mongolian public by translating them from Russian and German languages into Mongolian.
Works by D.Natsagdorj are available in many foreign languages, and some of them have been published in Russia, India, Germany and many other countries.
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