Modern Mongolian literature
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dreams_libraryNot such a specific question, but I'm interested in modern (defined loosely as "anything post-17th-century) Mongolian literature and poetry, either written in or translated into English (alas for my monolinguality!). Novels, poetry, short stories, whatever! Extra bonus points if it involves Queen Manduhai (Mandukhai, Manduqai) in some way.
I just don't know where to start looking.
I just don't know where to start looking.
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Date: 2010-06-12 03:38 am (UTC)Yeah, I have been (casually, because I'm kind of Genghised-out) looking for a Mongolian-authored history book and haven't found one yet. The closest I've come is Urgunge Onon's translation of Secret History of the Mongols, which is 1) expensive and 2) kind of linguistically weird in places, although a lot more readable than the more linguistically nitpicky ones (although still dry).
If you haven't read the SH yet and don't mind dry, Cleaves' translation is available free: http://altaica.ru/SECRET/cleaves_shI.pdf (Cleaves wasn't Mongolian and the translation is slightly outdated, but it's not bad). Pretty much every history of Genghis Khan depends heavily on the SH, and it's a really interesting read.