WRITER D.URIANKHAI BECOMES WINNER OF ASIAN LITERATURE AWARD

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A Mongolian writer Uriankhai Damdinsuren has become the 1st winner of Asian Literature Award, selected by the Asia Culture Center and the Organizing Committee of Asian Literature Festival. The Morning of Asia, the first Asian Literature Festival 2017, was held on November 1-4 in the Republic of Korea. The Asian Literature Award is a part of the main programs of Asian Literature Festival. The judging committee recommends the long list of nominees, draw up the shortlist and select the final recipient of the award. The judging committee includes Ko Un, Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Wole Soyinka, a laureate of Nobel Prize in Literature, Claude Mouchard, an honorary professor of the Paris 8 University, and Sunggon Kim, President of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Damdinsuren Uriankhai was born in 1940 in Mongolia, and became a poet in 1977. He is highly regarded as a poet that has enhanced Mongolian literature as the field of intuition and discernment. The prize money of 20,000,000KRW was presented to the recipient of the award. “The poetry of India, China, Persia, and other parts of Asia have superbly represented the wisdom and agony from the ancient times. The poetic accomplishments of these traditions have been inherited by poems across the region. On the foundation of these traditions, contemporary Asian poems fulfill their poetic destiny as the crystallization of the full spectrum of human emotions on this planet of ours. Today, we continue to fulfill our destiny in full recognition that Asia is no longer the object of this world, and Asian poems do not remain on the fringe of the global poetry community. We also affirm our mission to reflect on the western-centricism and occidentalism found in Asia’s modern poetry under a new light. Also in need of our serious attention is the issue of what courses poems should take in the face of the 4th industry revolution. I hope the Asian Literature Festival will bring our attention to these issues,” noted Ko Un, Chairperson of the Organization Committee in his opening speech. B.Ooluun