Ayurzana Gun-Aajav is a graduate of the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow and IWP of the University of Iowa, USA. He has published seven books of poetry, two collections of short stories, several non-fiction books, and four novels. In 2002, he was awarded the National Literary Award Altan Od [Golden Feather] for Durlalgui yrtontsiin blues ['The Blues of a World Without Love'], in 2003 for the novel Ilbe zereglee ['The Magic Mirage'] and again in 2010 for the novel Boegiin domog ['Legend of Shaman']. [Read]