Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj

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Borjigin Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj
Born	1906 Töv aimag
Died	June 1937
Occupation	Poet, Writer

Borjigin Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj (Mongolian: Боржигин Дашдоржийн Нацагдорж; 1906-1937), was a Mongolian poet and writer. He was born at site Gun Galuutai in what is now Töv aimag in 1906 to an untitled noble (hohi taiji) Dashdorji. Between 1926 and 1929, he stayed in Germany and France and set up the Mongolian Writers' Union.

His poems cover a variety of topics including patriotic, revolutionary, educatory, cognitive and love romance. The poem "My native land", the most famous of his works, praise the beautiful variety of the country of Mongolia, factually listing all sites of Mongolia including the territories near the borders. A number of literature critics maintain that the poet drew an intangible border of Mongolia of his time in his poem. If this hypothesis is followed, it turns out that the poem claims the mountains of the Sayans as part of Mongolia.

His educatory poems can be viewed as PR for the European medicine that was introduced to Mongolia immediately following the revolution. The cognitive poems of the writer include such poems as "Star" and "The Painting on the Wall".

A tragic love story "The Three Sad Hills" (music by Damdinsuren and Smirnoff) became one of the most popular operas of Mongolia. The Opera House in Ulaanbaatar starts and finishes each year of its programme with this opera.

D. Natsagdorj was jailed suspected as a carrier of burgeous ideology. His tragic life was not long. He died in June 1937, just 31 years old.

He is widely regarded as Mongolia's first "classic Socialist" writer.