| Suki Kim | |
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| Nationality | USA |
| Genres | novel, essay |
| Notable work(s) | The Interpreter |
| Notable award(s) | PEN Beyond Margins Award Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award |
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www.sukikim.com |
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| Suki Kim | |
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| Hangul | 김숙희[1] |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Sukhui |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Sukhǔi |
Suki Kim (born 1970) is a Korean American writer, a 2006 Guggenheim fellow and the author of the award winning novel The Interpreter.
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Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She emigrated to United States with her family when she was 13, moving to New York.[2] Kim is a naturalized American citizen.
Kim graduated from Barnard College in 1992, with a BA in English, minor in East Asian Literature. Right after her graduation, Kim went to London to study Korean literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies. After a year-and-a-half of graduate study in Korean literature, Kim returned to New York City to pursue a writing career. She received a Fulbright Research Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Her debut novel The Interpreter 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.[3] The book received positive critic reviews[4] and won the PEN Beyond Margins Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. The Interpreter was translated into Dutch, French, Korean, and Japanese.