[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.
An early member of the Tibetan New Literature movement of the 1980s, Döndrup's work has continued to be relevant.
[3] His novel about the 1958 Amdo uprising, The Red Wind Howls, was never formally published, though copies circulate on the black market.
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