Hadaa Sendoo is a Mongolian poet known for his contributions to modern poetry.
25 Facts About Hadaa Sendoo
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Hadaa Sendoo's works have been translated into multiple languages and featured in various anthologies and literary journals internationally.
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Hadaa Sendoo was elected a full member of the Mongolian Academy of Humanities and received an Achievement Award in 2010 in the USA.
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Hadaa Sendoo has been nominated for the 2012 International Peace Award.
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Hadaa Sendoo was born in 1961 in Southern Mongolia, today's Inner Mongolia, and grew up in Shiliingol.
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Hadaa Sendoo's father was the head of a theatre, and his mother was a drama actor.
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Hadaa Sendoo has lived in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, since 1991.
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When Hadaa Sendoo was very young, his father moved his family to southern Mongolia, near the Dalan Har Mountains, where Hadaa spent his childhood.
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Hadaa Sendoo studied old Mongolian and Chinese at the local high school but, tiring of the school curriculum, he returned to a nomadic life on the steppe.
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Hadaa Sendoo remained on the steppe until 1984, when his father recommended that he should enter an art institute.
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Hadaa Sendoo did so and soon served there as an editorial assistant.
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The young Hadaa Sendoo had the opportunity to read a lot of Mongolian literature - certainly the classics, and thus epics, including the Jangar, Books of Mongolian Folk Songs, and Modernist Poetry.
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Hadaa Sendoo's research has included Mongolian folk literature, including folk songs, and Mongolian mythology.
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In 1996, Hadaa Sendoo published his first collection of poems written in Cyrillic new Mongolian.
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Hadaa Sendoo won the Athens City Hall Prize and the 2nd Olympics of Culture Prize.
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Hadaa Sendoo has taught at the National University of Mongolia.
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In 2000, in the first new millennium of the 21st century, Hadaa Sendoo was awarded the Poet of the Millennium Award, jointly awarded by Krishna Srinivas, President of the World Poetry Society, and the International Academy of Poets, India.
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On September 24,2011, Hadaa Sendoo joined the World Poetry Movement and thus becoming in of its early founder members.
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Hadaa Sendoo's poems have appeared in the World Record Anthology by Bloodaxe.
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Hadaa Sendoo's poems, translated into more than 40 languages, have been included in The Best Mongolian Poetry collection.
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Hadaa Sendoo is currently a consulting editor of the International Literary Quarterly.
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Hadaa Sendoo was invited to the influential International Poetry Festival of Medellin as a guest, and to the 2011 Tokyo Poetry Festival.
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In 2016, Hadaa Sendoo published his collection of poems Sweet Smell of Grass [9] in Persian.
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In 2018, Hadaa Sendoo won a silver medal at the third Eurasian Literary Festival in Sochi.
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In 2019, Hadaa Sendoo was invited to the Vietnam International Poetry Festival, the International Writers Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the Eurasian Literary Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he won the highest honor - the gold medal of the Silk Way Literary Festival.