The Blue Sky

Informationen zum Autor Galsan Tschinag is the author of a trilogy of autobiographical novels about the Tuvinian community of nomadic herders in the High Altai Mountains of western Mongolia. Tschinag was trained as a shaman as a boy, and has worked as a journalist. He has published more than thirty books, mostly short fiction, novels, and poetry. In 1995, Tschinag, as chieftain of his people, negotiated a land claim treaty with the Mongolian government. He then led the Tuvinians, who, a generation before had been dispersed all over Mongolia, back to their traditional lands in the High Altai mountains. Today, Tschinag divides his time between Ulaan-Bataar where he writes, the High Altai where he lives, and Germany where he works. Katharina Rout is a literary translator of contemporary German-language fiction. She grew up in Germany and received a Ph.D. in German literature before moving to Canada, where she became a professor of English literature.

Product details

• Authors: Galsan Tschinag, Galsan/ Rout Tschinag, Tschinag Galsan
• Assisted by: Katharina Rout (Translation), Rout Katharina (Translation)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2007
• EAN: 9781571310644
• ISBN: 978-1-57131-064-4
• No. of pages: 209
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary