The Mongolian poet G.Mend-Ooyo has been awarded Grand Prize of the Mihai Eminescu International Academy, named for the famous nineteenth-century Romanian lyric poet. Special prizes were also given to the Canadian Nicole Brossard and to the Senelagese Amadou Lamine Sall.

The Academy has founded with honored many writers, among them Wole Soyinka, Czesław Miłosz, Eugène Guillevic, Edoardo Sanguinetti, Mario Luzi, Ismail Kadare, Rafael Alberti, Eugenio de Andrade, Mateja Matevski and Mimmo Morina. 

In the reception hall of the Art Museum in Craiova, which has been named as European City of Culture for 2021, the President of the Academy, Ion Deaconescu, and Craiova's Mayor, Lia Olguta Vasiliescu, presented G.Mend-Ooyo with the Academy's award, and the famous Italian sculptor Vincenzo Bianchi himself presented the winner with a sculpture which he had created. The well-known artist Constantin Mihalache presented his own painting and the Academy's own silver trophy.

G.Mend-Ooyo accepted this important award, and noted. "That I am receiving this prize in the European city of Craiova clearly confirms the importance of the poetry of my homeland in the ancient culture of Europe. Human desire transforms over time, and it is genuine poetry which preserves the things of value from such ephemera, and enriches the cache of our precious human civilization."