Ureltu (

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:乌热尔图) is a modern Evenk

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writer.吴重阳,《乌热尔图》条目.《中国大百科全书》第一版. Ureltu's original name is Tu Shaomin (涂绍民). He was born in Ulan Hot,

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on April 20, 1952. His father was Evenk, and his mother was Daur. Most time of his childhood was spent at Nirki,

Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner ( Mongolian: ; Dagur: Морин Даваа Даор Ихькиеву Гуасей, ; zh, s=莫力达瓦达斡尔族自治旗), often abbreviated in official documents as Mo Banner (), is one of three autonomo ...

. Ureltu received

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and Daur culture education at infants' school, elementary school and junior high school. During the

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, he exiled to Aoluguya Evenke National Village, Ergun Left Banner. He lived nearly 10 years at Aoluguya, successively worked as a hanter, worker and policeman, and later joined the

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. He has served as the publicity committeeman and

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of the village party committee after that. In 1976 he published his maiden work ''Little Kevass of the Great Mountain'', a story for children, when he used the pen name Ureltu ("son of the forest" in

Evenk language Evenki ( ), formerly known as Tungus, is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes Even, Negidal, and the more closely related Oroqen language. The name is sometimes wrongly given as "Evenks". ...

) for the first time.奎曾，鄂温克族的文学新星——乌热尔图.中国民族.1984年09期. In 1980, Ureltu was transferred to work at Federation of Literary in Hulunbuir League, later successively attended the National Conference on Literature of Minority Groups and the Third Literature Congress of Inner Mongolia. In the next year, he was sent to study at the literature workshop of

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. In this year he received several awards, for example, ''Look, That Greenery'' won him the National Prize for Literature of Minority Groups, ''Obsecration of a Hunter'' won him the National Excellent Short Story Award, ''Dream Forest'' won him Gold Award for Inner Mongolian Literature, and ''Hounds'' won him ''Grassland'' Award for Excellent Short Stories. During the next two years he wrote a series of short stories continued, among which the ''Hart with Seven-Fork Horns'' and ''Amber Bonfire'' won him the National Excellent Short Story Award of 1982 and 1983. In 1985 he became a secretary of the China Writers Association Secretariat. In 1988 he wrote three short stories, ''Wolker and Bilig'', ''Firing Early in the Morning'' and ''Malu, Malu''. In the early 1990s, Ureltu published novella ''Mysterious Forest'', then stopped his fiction writing.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ureltu 1952 births Living people Chinese male short story writers People from Hinggan League Short story writers from Inner Mongolia Chinese children's writers Evenks International Writing Program alumni 20th-century Chinese short story writers 20th-century Chinese male writers