Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba

Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba was born on 20 August 1917 in what is now Govi-Altai Province, the son of a herder; as a child he tended sheep. Placed with a lama, he left the monastery, then learned the railway trade and drove locomotives in Ulaanbaatar. He then worked at the state radio and in the press, graduated in 1954 from the national university with a degree in Mongolian language and literature, and obtained a doctorate in art studies in Moscow. Moving to the Ministry of Culture, twice winner of the State Prize, he died in 1970.

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• NovelТунгалаг ТамирChadraabalyn Lodoidamba · 1962not translated into EnglishLiterature