Biography
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj (Mongolian: Дашдоржийн Нацагдорж; 17 November 1906 - 13 June 1937) was a Mongolian poet, writer and playwright, one of the founders of the Mongol literature.Natsagdorj was born in central-eastern Mongolia to a poor family of a nobleman who had lost his title. Due to the lack of standard education in Mongolia at that time he received much of his education from a home teacher. From the age of 11, he worked as a scribe and writer as he learned to read and write.
Between 1926 and 1929, he traveled to Germany and France where he completed his education while returning to Mongolia he founded the Writers' Union of Mongolia. His poems cover a wide variety of subjects; he wrote patriotic, revolutionary educational romances. His most famous poem "My native land" is an anthem for Mongolia, while "The Three Sad Hills" became one of the most popular operas in Mongolia.
From 1930 he had problems with the communist government that had been established in the country, resulting in his imprisonment for a few months in 1932. In 1935, the regime sent his wife and daughter away, to Leningrad. Two years later, on June 13, 1937, Narsagdorz died without being able to see them again.