November 2006

THE

WATERLOO CENTRE FOR GERMAN STUDIES

presents

Galsan Tschinag

reading from his novel (in German, with parallel passages in English)

Der blaue Himmel

(The Blue Sky)

Galsan Tschinag was born in the High Altai Mountains in western Mongolia into a family of nomadic herders. His family belongs to the Tuvan people and traditionally held a position of wealth and leadership. Tschinag was trained as a shaman. As a young boy, he traveled to Leipzig where he studied German language and literature and began to write, mostly in German.He is the author of more than thirty books, short fiction, novels, and poetry, published in Germany and Switzerland.
Tschinag has been awarded several German literary awards, including the Order of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well s a Danish literary award and the two highest orders of the Republic of Tuva. A film based on the “Tuvinian Tale” by Oscar-winner Florian Gallenberger is in the works.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14,

4:00 p.m.

HAGEY HALL 373

($3.00 coin parking in H lot, at main entrance off University Ave. or in lot A on Seagram Dr.)

For more information call: 519-888-4567, ext. 32260 or see our website: www.wcgs.ca

The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies nd the Goethe-Institut, Toronto

“Tschinag describes the strenuous days spent
between the herd of sheep and the yurt with both
affection and precision, and evokes the stunning
landscape in a particularly memorable way, all of it
contributing to the unlikely sense one has as a
reader that we are remembering our own
childhood.”-Die Welt (Germany)