Mongush Kenin-Lopsan

Education

Kenin-Lopsan was educated at ground school in Chadan, later on colleges in Kyzyl. He studied philology at Leningrad (today Street St. Petersburg) University and received a Master"s degree in "Eastern Sciences".

Career

Among his first books was The Big Way (1956) as well as other novels like The Currents of the Big River (1965), Dance of Capricorn and The Yurt of the Horse Herder. His whole life he collected stories from his kinsmen, storytellers, shamans, workers, herders and poets.

Achievements

• He won several Russian and Tuvan prizes.