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Galsan Tschinag is the author of more than thirty books, a shaman, a singer and the chief of the Tuvan people in Mongolia. He was born in the early 1940s in the high mountains of Mongolia; from 1962 until 1968 he studied at the University of Leipzig in Eastern Germany, where he adopted German as his written language. His books, amongst them the highly successful novel ‘The Blue Sky’ have been translated into many languages. Writer Galsan Tschinag was guest of the 2007 German Arts Festival “GermMANY FACES Australia”. He talked to Florian Messner, producer and presenter of the Kulturchronik segment of SBS.