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Hadaa Sendoo was born in 1961.A poet of the post-modern overdrive. His work has been selected for The Best Mongolian Poetry and He is winner of the Mongolian Writers Union Prize. His poems have been translated more than 30 languages; and He has won the Poet of the Millennium Award, the Best Poet Prize, the Literature Achievement Award, the poetry Merit Award, He founded World Poetry Almanac in 2006.He was considered one the most valuable poets of the world by some scholars. In 2008 he was receive the Creative Giant Award in India and World Poetry Ambassador Medal 2009 in Canada. He presents as consulting editor of the review in a world renowned the International Literary Quarterly. Since 1991, he has lived in Ulaanbaatar city, Mongolia.

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+Hadaa Sendoo was born in 1961.A poet of the post-modern overdrive. His work has been selected for The Best Mongolian Poetry and He is winner of the Mongolian Writers Union Prize. His poems have been translated more than 30 languages; and He has won the Poet of the Millennium Award, the Best Poet Prize, the Literature Achievement Award, the poetry Merit Award, He founded World Poetry Almanac in 2006.He was considered one the most valuable poets of the world by some scholars.  In 2008 he was receive the Creative Giant Award in India and World Poetry Ambassador Medal 2009 in Canada. He presents as consulting editor of the review in a world renowned the International Literary Quarterly. Since 1991, he has lived in Ulaanbaatar city, Mongolia.
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-'''''Biography: A Brief History''''' is a book by Nigel Hamilton that portrays, through [[historiography]], the history of [[biography]], and shows how biographers have portrayed and interpreted individuals' lives. The book examines the [[historical evolution]] of biography from the [[ancient world]] to the present, from the [[Epic of Gilgamesh]] to the recent ''[[American Splendor]]'', from [[cuneiform]] to the Internet, from [[commemoration]] to [[deconstruction]], and from [[fiction]] to [[fact]]. It also examines such famous biographical authors as [[Plutarch]], [[Saint Augustine]], [[Sir Walter Raleigh]], [[Samuel Johnson]], [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], [[Lord Byron]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Lytton Strachey]], [[Abel Gance]], [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Leni Riefenstahl]], [[Orson Welles]], [[Julian Barnes]], [[Ted Hughes]], and [[Frank McCourt]].
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-==Prologue==
-Nigel Hamilton defines biography as "our creative and non-fiction output devoted to recording and interpreting real lives", and believes that the term biography does not include biographies that can be both commentaries and life stories. He writes that biography is integral to [[Western culture|Western]] ideals of [[individuality]] and ideals of [[democracy]], and that although biographies are important, most universities do not have a department devoted to the study of biography, except for the [[University of Hawaii]] at [[Manoa]].
-==Evolutionary biography==
-Nigel Hamilton believes that the most important function of biography is to "contribute to our knowledge, understanding, and reconstruction of past civilizations". The majority of early societies recorded themselves through the "memorialization of distinct individuals", and early societies, such as that of the [[Ancient Greeks]] or the [[Ancient Egyptians]] used [[poems]], [[songs]], [[drawings]], and [[written verse]] to record their history. He believes that [[knowledge]] is knowing who one is as well as who other are, and that biography is also used to guide humans' self-understanding as [[individuals]].
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-[[Sagas]] are long story of heroic achievement that have involved accounts of a series of incidents; they are the early [[speech|oral]] versions of biographies. Sagas were told through [[mnemonic techniques]] such as [[alliteration]], [[repetition]], [[rhyme]], [[rhythm]], and [[characterization]].
-The [[Epic of Gilgamesh]] is a saga about Gilgamesh's journeys, and it impacts biographical portraiture, even today. Three questions still remain unanswered: where fact ends and interpretation begins, whether biography is essentially the chronicle of an individual's life journey, and whether it is an art of human portraiture that must for social and psychological constructive reasons capture the essence and distinctiveness of a real individual.
-The word "biography" is formed from the Greek words meaning "life", and "depiction". D.R. Stuart said that biography excludes "historians' point of view and home life."  Educated Greeks and Romans were biographers, because they could deliver a [[eulogy]], paint [[portraits]], sculpt [[Bust (sculpture)|busts]], or write about significant people of the day and in the past. In ancient times, the only professional biographers were [[compilers]]. [[Plutarch]] said biography let him "treat history as a mirror", because he could help his own life by looking at others.