Katharina Rout is a literary translator of contemporary German-language fiction. She grew up in Germany and received a Ph.D. in German literature before moving to Canada, where she became a professor of English literature.
Rooted in the oral traditions of the Tuvan people, the first novel in Galsan Tschinag’s saga—reissued as a Seedbank title—weaves the timeless story of a boy poised on the cusp of manhood with the tale of a people’s vanishing way of life.
