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Tsering Döndrup

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Tsering Döndrup (Tibetan: ཚེ་རིང་དོན་གྲུབ) is a Tibetan author from Malho.[1] Döndrup was born in 1961 to a family of ethnically Mongolian nomadic herders. He is a historian and a major writer in contemporary Tibetan literature.

Biography

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Döndrup studied Tibetan language and literature at the Qinghai Nationalities Institute in Xining and the Northwest Nationalities Institute in Lanzhou. An early member of the Tibetan New Literature movement of the 1980s, Döndrup's work has continued to be relevant.[2]

Several of his books have been translated into French and Chinese. A collection of his short stories, The Handsome Monk And Other Stories, was translated into English and published by Columbia University Press in 2019.[3] His novel about the 1958 Amdo uprising, The Red Wind Howls, was never formally published, though copies circulate on the black market. He lost his job and passport as a result of writing this book.[4]

Books

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  • Ancestors (Mes po), 2001
  • Fog (Smug pa), 2002
  • The Red Wind Howls (Rlung dmar ‘ur ‘ur), 2009
  • My Two Fathers, 2015
  • The Handsome Monk, 2019

References

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  1. ^ Butler, John (2019-04-20). ""The Handsome Monk and Other Stories" by Tsering Döndrup". Asian Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  2. ^ Stoddard, Heather. "Tsering Döndrup's The Red Wind Scream" (PDF). Latse Library Newsletter. 6.
  3. ^ Döndrup, Tsering (2019). The Handsome Monk and Other Stories. Translated by Peacock, Christopher. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54878-6.
  4. ^ Berwald, Max (July 8, 2019). "Translating Contemporary Tibet: In Conversation with Christopher Peacock - Asymptote Blog". Asymptote Journal. Retrieved 2020-05-19.