Anna Kim (born 10 September 1977) is an Austrian writer.
Life
Kim was born in
Daejeon,
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
in 1977 but moved to Germany in 1979.
She studied at the
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
in philosophy and theatre studies, graduating with a master's degree.
Since 1999 she has regularly published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies.
In 2012, Kim was Austria's winner of the
European Union Prize for Literature for her second novel, ''Die gefrorene Zeit'' (translated in English as ''Frozen Time''). Published in 2008, the novel covers the Kosovar man searching for his missing wife after the end of the
Yugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related#Naimark, Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and Insurgency, insurgencies that took place in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia from ...
.
Kim lives in Vienna.
Awards
Kim has received numerous awards and grants:
* 2009: HALMA Scholarship
* 2009: Elias Canetti Scholarship
* 2009: Heinrich Treichl Prize from the Austrian Red Cross
* 2010: Robert Musil Scholarship
* 2012:
European Union Prize for Literature for ''Die gefrorene Zeit (Frozen Time)''
* 2017: Artist in Residence at Villa Sträuli in Winterthur
Selected works
* ''Die Bilderspur'' (''The Trace of Pictures'', 2004) – novel
*''Das Sinken ein Bückflug'' (2006) – poetry collection
*''Die gefrorene Zeit'' (''Frozen Time'', 2008) – novel
* ''Anatomie einer Nacht'' (''Anatomy of a Night'', 2012) – novel
References
Austrian women writers
University of Vienna alumni
1977 births
Living people
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