Suki Kim
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At Miami Book Fair International, Nov. 2015
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| Born | Seoul, South Korea |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Barnard College, Columbia University |
| Genre | novel, essay |
| Notable works | The Interpreter, Without You, There is No Us |
| Notable awards | PEN Beyond Margins Award Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award |
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Suki Kim is a Korean American writer, a Guggenheim fellow and the author of the award-winning novel The Interpreter and a New York Times Bestselling literary nonfiction, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite. Kim is the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea for immersive journalism.
Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She emigrated to the United States with her family as a teenager, moving to the outer boroughs of New York City. Kim is a naturalized American citizen.
Kim graduated from Barnard College with a BA in English and a minor in East Asian Literature. Kim also lived in London for several years, studying Korean literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She received a Fulbright Research Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Open Society Foundations Fellowship.
Her debut novel, The Interpreter, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, is a murder mystery about a young Korean American woman, Suzy Park, living in New York City and searching for answers as to why her shopkeeper parents were murdered. Kim took a short term job as an interpreter in New York City when working on the novel to look into the life of an interpreter. The book received positive critic reviews and won the PEN Beyond Margins Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award and was a finalist for a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Interpreter was translated into Dutch, French, Korean, Italian, and Japanese.
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