On November 8, 2007, the National University of Mongolia awarded the Prof. Choi. Lubsangjab Gold Medal to PhDr. Alena Oberfalzerová, PhD. for her monograph Metaphors and Nomads . This year was the first time that a committee of Mongolian academics and researchers decided to grant this prize to a foreign Mongolist. As concerns the book for which the prize was awarded, the committee appreciated the author s focus on spoken language and communication, her field-work among the Mongolian nomads, and a new approach to the interpretation of Mongolian culture, especially its oral tradition. --National University of Mongolia