Sabine Kuegler

Sabine Kuegler was born in Nepal in 1972. At the age of five, she moved with her
parents, both linguists, to the jungles of West Papua, Indonesia, where she spent
her childhood and adolescence. The family lived with a recently discovered indigenous
tribe, the Fayu. At the age of 17, Sabine Kuegler left the jungle to complete her
education in Switzerland. In 2005, she published her first book, “Dschungelkind”,
an international bestseller that has been translated into more than 30 languages. In
2012, sick and abandoned by doctors, she returned to the jungle, where she lived
with various tribes in the deepest jungles of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon
Islands for almost five years, finally finding a cure. Today, Sabine Kuegler works as
an entrepreneur and is committed to fighting social and cultural ills.