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About G.Mend-Ooyo

I would like to add that I consider you to be a poet of the first order. Your poem “I am coming to You” thrilled my heart and soul. You are “seeking for the eternal song the essence of love.” You are not only a poet but also a genuine seeker of the highest Truth. I do hope that we may one day meet together in your beloved Mongolia.

 

Quotations on G.Mend-Ooyo's works

In 2007, Altan Ovoo (Golden Hill) was published for the first time in English translation, prepared by Simon Wickham-Smith. The publication of this English translation brought a great deal of positive criticism from its readers.

S Erdene

“Altan Ovoo is a true song of home. I do not know of another work of such pure, imaginative power”
classic novelist /Mongolia/

D Uriankhai

“Through the flow of power across the mirror of his mind, a flow which is not dependent upon the awakening of form, omens, intuition, dreams or feeling, the poet engages with the power of the local spirits and guardians of his own country, and passes to us a translation of the secret language of that country…”
poet, philosopher /Mongolia/

​J Bold-Erdene

“Mongolian men, Mongolian horses, the Mongolian steppes, the horsehead fiddle, the swallows on the steppe, the golden sun – the world of Golden Hill is completely absorbed into the poetry of this book Altan Ovoo marks a renewal of Mongolian poetry.”
poet and critic /Mongolia/

T Ochirkhüü

“I want to think my fellow poet for his book, Altan Ovoo. I not only find this book a challenging and profound read, I also want to study its unusual rhythm and flow.”
poet and writer /Mongolia/

Sh Uyanga

“Altan Ovoo towers at the very center of my mind. A book like this comes up again and again, its intense sparks flaming upwards, casting its light undeniably upon the present. A brilliant book, however, is written by a brilliant man. From Altan Ovoo, I stand and look out over the mountains, over the whole world.”
poet and critic /Mongolia/

Dr., Prof. Ya.Baatar

“In particular, his work Altan Ovoo is a sincere, transparent poem of the true nomads and a magical poetic work expressing the aspiration for the safeguard of the natural essence and spiritual immunity of humankind and of the Mongols, who are being polluted and drowned in the urbanized social civilization...”
critic /Mongolia/

Maria Petrova

In the centre of the image system is the Altan Ovoo – mythical world mountain Sumeru, which connects Earth and Sky, upper, middle and lower worlds. The coexistence of secular and sacral worlds, the union of real and mythical spheres, poetical style, the usage of prose and poetry give the work by G.Mend-Ooyo mystical enchantment. This was also noted by Mongolian and European readers and literary critics. To my mind, modern presentation of traditional legends and ballades by G.Mend-Ooyo is a conscious author’s position. It demonstrates creative usage of folklore in Modern Mongolian literature.
 
Mongolian scholar
/ Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia/

Dr Ь Hьrelbaatar

“G Mend-Ooyo’s work, the basis of his poetry, is simple: it is, as the name of his book suggests, that Nomads are Coming from the Horizon. The point where Heaven and Earth meet, the mutual worship of nature and human beings, intuition and the gently melody of the inner mind – this is the Golden Hill of his wisdom, in all that he writes there is the poetry of nomads and the memory of nomadism. Mend-Ooyo’s poetic œuvre is the essence and mentality of the Mongol nomad, it is the call of Heaven, its writing is the sweet melody of the Mongol vertical script, and its magic waves of poetry are valued throughout the world.”
 
critic, poet, head of the Mongol Center for Literary Research
/Mongolia/

Dr D Tseveendorj

“G Mend-Ooyo’s poetry has developed through his investigation of viewpoint and is able to express life through the simplicity of his language. And so the particular attitude of nomadic poetry is brought closer to the world stage. In other words, through his poetic work, which is the contemplation and worship of that meaning which reveals what is secret and which grants perspective, the special characteristics of oriental poetry are revealed.”
 

researcher, critic and Professor of Literature
/Mongolia/

Dr Ya Ganbaatar

“Mend-Ooyo’s poems are finely-wrought, its language elegant, its images clear and its ideas profound. They show the wonderful power of the melodic Mongol tongue, they overflow with the verses, the language, the beautiful and vibrantly delicious words of poetry alone.”
 
Professor of Literary Studies
/Mongolia/
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