Education and Early Life
Nambaryn Enkhbayar was born on 1 June 1958 in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. He graduated from secondary school in 1975, and went to the Moscow Institute of Literature in Moscow. He earned an undergraduate degree in literature and language in 1980, and spent a year abroad in Leeds University in England in 1985 to 1986. There, for the first time, he encountered uncensored media, and was particularly stunned at the contrast of opinions between the Western and Soviet media. Upon arriving back to Ulaanbaatar, Enkhbayar became the head of the Association of Mongolian Writers in 1990, the year that the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party relinquished control and multi-party elections were held that July for the first time in Mongolia history. Enkhbayar holds an English language proficiency certificate from Cambridge University and has translated major Russian and English authors, including Tolstoy and Dickens. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from a number of universities, and is a well-known translator and columnist. He married Onon Tsolmon in 1987, and has four children.
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