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G. Ayurzana Novelist Mongolia
G. Ayurzana had graduated in Creative Writing from Maxim Gorky Literary Institute, Moscow, Russia in 1994. He worked as a journalist for six years and has been a freelance writer since 2000. There are eight published poetry books in his career, but now he is more a novelist than a poet. His first novel The Magic Mirage (2003) was about typical Mongolian family of communist period, their offspring’s life after socialism, and an unlucky artist-neurotic. It became one trilogy with following novels The Debt of Ten Dreams (2005) and Born of Echo (2007). In 2007 he won Visiting Fellowship from IWP at the University of Iowa. Two of his books were translated into Korean. The first one is short story collection, The Legend of the Eye, and the second one is The Legend of the Shaman. This novel about a Northern Mongolian shaman and shamanism was published in 2010 and became one of the most widely read books in contemporary Mongolian literature. The novel was broadcasted by Mongolian national radio in full text and won Altan Oed(The Golden Feather). The Goo Maral Academy of Mongolia named this as best literary work for 1st decade of 21st century. Another novel Shugden (2012) is focused on on Buddism and Inner-Mongolians. White, Black, Red was released in February, 2014. This one is about a contemporary artist, spiritual ecstasy of creative people, and mental sickness and love.
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