Background
Natsagdorj was born at a site of the lake Gün Galuutai in Darkhan Chinese Wang khoshuu (what is now Bayandelger sum of Tov Province to the impoverished family of an untitled noble (hohi taiji).
Natsagdorj was born at a site of the lake Gün Galuutai in Darkhan Chinese Wang khoshuu (what is now Bayandelger sum of Tov Province to the impoverished family of an untitled noble (hohi taiji).
Because of the lack of formalized education in Mongolia at that time he received much of his early education from a tutor. From the age of 11, he worked in the Military department as a writer Between 1926 and 1929, he stayed in Germany and France and set up the Mongolian Writers" Union.
Starting 1930, Natsagdorj became more doubtful of leftist ideologies.
He was arrested in 1932 but released again later the same year. He died in June 1937, just 31 years old.
The Mongolian Writer"s Union erected a memorial monument on his birthplace in the Gün-Galuut Nature Reserve in 1981.
He is considered one of the founding fathers of modern Mongolian literature and Mongolia"s first "classic Socialist" writer