Renchinii Choinom
From Mongol Studies Online Reference
Renchinii Choinom (Feb. 10, 1936 - April 24, 1979) was a dissident poet persecuted by the communist Mongolian People's Republic for writing poems critical of the state and the Soviet Union. Communist officials also did not like that he wrote poems praising Chinggis Khan, whose importance they preferred to play down.
He was born in Bor Ukhaa located in Darkhan Soum of Khentii Aimag. In 1953 he began to work for the local newspaper of Khentii Aimag, Uragshaa (Advance). In 1956 he moved to Ulaanbaatar to work for the Union of Mongolian Artists, Central State Museum and for the magazine Shinjlekh Ukhaan Amidral (Science and Life) as an engraver, sculptor, and painter until 1967, when he contracted tuberculosis. In 1969 he was arrested on charges of slander against the state for his poetry and imprisoned in the Khajuu-Ulaan correctional labor colony for four years. Six years after his release, on April 24, 1979, he died of tuberculosis.
During the Glasnost and Perestroika reforms of the late 1980s he was rehabilitated and eventually his collected poems were published in 1990 under the title Sümtei Budar Yn Chuluu and he was posthumously awarded a state prize for literature.[1]
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- ↑ Okada, Kazuyuki. English abstract for "Renchinii Choinom: A Mongolian Dissident Poet." Tokyo University Journal of Foreign Language and Culture Studies. No.42, 3 October 1991. p.201-223. Original article listing in Japanese: 岡田, 和行(Okada, Kazuyuki) "反逆の詩人レンチニー・チョイノム ." 東京外国語大学論集. No.42, 3 October 1991. p.201-223.
