Begziin Yavuukhulan ( mn, Бэгзийн Явуухулан, 1929-1982) was a

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

n poet of the communist era that wrote in Mongolian and Russian.

Biography

Begziin Yavuukhulan was born into a family of a hunters in Jargalant,

Aldarkhaan, Zavkhan Aldarkhaan ( mn, Алдархаан) is a sum of Zavkhan Province in western Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north ...

, Mongolia. He graduated from the financial and economic technical school. He worked as an accountant. Then he went to work for a youth newspaper. He worked in the magazine "Tsog" ("Ogonyok"). He spent five years in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. In 1959 he graduated from the

Maxim Gorky Literature Institute The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (russian: Литературный институт им. А. М. Горького) is an institution of higher education in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow. History The insti ...

. He rose to fame as a poet. In addition to traditional genres, he mastered the genre of

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. He also acted as a translator of Russian poets, in particular

Sergei Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin ( rus, Сергей Александрович Есенин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn; ( 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one o ...

.Уикем-Смит С. Шепот внутри: поэзия Бекзина Явухулана (Пер. с англ. А. В. Зорина) // Mongolica-IX. СПб.: Петербургское востоковедение, 2010. С. 78—83
/ref> He had a significant influence on Mongolian literature, and was the teacher of the poet G. Mend Ooyoo. A collection of his poetry has been published by the Academy of Culture and Poetry. They were also featured in a collection of short stories, poems and songs titled ''A String of Pearly Drops'' (''Suvdan dusaalyn khelkhees'').

References

Mongolian poets People from Zavkhan Province 1929 births 1982 deaths 20th-century poets 20th-century Mongolian poets 20th-century Mongolian writers Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni {{Mongolia-writer-stub