“Nature of Mind and Mind of Nature” was the theme that brought us together at The Alembic in Berkeley for a day of poetry and conversation. The event centered on a poetry reading followed by audience questions and discussion. It was a meaningful opportunity to share poems and engage in thoughtful dialogue with a community of artists, readers, and meditators.

In Mongolia, both culture and creative expression are shaped by deep relationality with land, ancestry, seasonality, and the living forces of the natural world. Mend-Ooyo’s work emerges from this lineage, where poetry is not separate from landscape, but a dialogue with it, revealing the intimacy between nature and mind.

Join us for an intimate evening with Mend-Ooyo Gombojav, Mongolia’s leading literary figure and naturalist. Mend-Ooyo is one of Mongolia’s most revered poets, the nation’s Poet Laureate, and a recipient of the Chinggis Khaan National Prize, Mongolia’s highest cultural honor.

3Les textes introductifs des deux fins connaisseurs et promoteurs de cette littérature que sont le Mongol G. Mend-Ooyo et le Français Marc Alaux offrent au lecteur des regards croisés qui se complètent harmonieusement. L’un comme l’autre insistent sur l’actualité de cette littérature, et sur sa pluralité. Littérature « organique et fraternelle » selon les mots de Marc Alaux, dont la lecture, « comme une incursion dans les vastes plaines, […] donne un surcroît d’intensité à l’existence ». Ainsi, non seulement elle « incarne la vie », apprécie l’écrivain, mais elle pose aussi la « question de notre capacité à accueillir l’étrange ». M. Alaux conclut l’avant-propos en rappelant ce principe de la littérature : « exister en tant que chemin, trait d’union entre deux mondes », un monde qui charrie l’héritage d’hier, mais néanmoins un monde « tout ce qu’il y a de plus actuel, réel et vivant ».

In Bangladesh—the homeland that bears and preserves the native language and culture of the great son of Asia, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore—a book launch and poetry reading were held as part of a cultural program between the two countries, along with the 2025 Kathak Literary Award ceremony, at the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel.
G.Mend-Ooyo was received KATHAK LITERARY AWARD, a poetry initiative in Bangladesh has decided to  outstanding contribution to the world literature along with few very important poets of the world.

 

  On April 24th of last year, G.Mend-Ooyo, a writer and poet who was awarded the Chinggis Khaan Order, sent an open letter to President U. Khurelsukh and Prime Minister L.Oyun-Erdene. In his letter, he reminded them that 2024 will be the anniversary of the historical monuments of Mongolian literacy and proposed to declare 2024 as the “Year of National Literacy and Culture” to make it a big wave of national literacy and book culture.April 24th of last year, G.Mend-Ooyo, a writer and poet who was awarded the Chinggis Khaan Order, sent an open letter to President U. Khurelsukh and Prime Minister L.Oyun-Erdene. In his letter, he reminded them that 2024 will be the anniversary of the historical monuments of Mongolian literacy and proposed to declare 2024 as the “Year of National Literacy and Culture” to make it a big wave of national literacy and book culture.

It was a honor to receive this Crown of Ovidio in Constanta, Romania from the hands of  Archbishop Teodosie, the president of Tomitan Academy.