Mend-Ooyo Gombojav

Gombojav Mend-Ooyo was born in 1952 in Dariganga, in Sükhbaatar province, into a family of nomadic herders, and wrote his first poems at thirteen. After graduating from the teacher training school in 1970, he went on to study at the pedagogical university, then directed the arts programmes of state radio and television. In the late seventies, with Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar and Danzangiin Nyamsüren, poets from his region, he founded a clandestine literary group, the Fire. After 1990, he led the reconstruction of a great temple of the Gandan monastery and organises an annual calligraphy exhibition.

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• NovelGolden HillАлтан овооMend-Ooyo Gombojav · 1993Literature