Suji Kwock Kim

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Suji Kwock Kim
Alma materYale College,
Iowa Writers' Workshop,
Seoul National University,
Yonsei University
GenrePoetry, Plays
Spouse
Raymond Short
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(m. 2007)​

Suji Kwock Kim is a Korean-American-British poet and playwright. [1]

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Early life and education

Kim's parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were all born in what is now North Korea. Her maternal great-grandfather co-founded 조선어학회, the Korean Language Society, during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He later became a linguistics professor and dean at Yonsei University in Seoul.

Kim was educated at Yale University, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Seoul National University and Yonsei University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. [2] [3] [4]

Career

Kim's work has been published in Best American Poetry , The New York Times , Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , The Guardian , New Statesman , Irish Examiner , Slate , The Nation , The New Republic , The Paris Review , London Magazine , Poetry London , Poetry , recorded for BBC Radio (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001r1cf, "Notes from Utopia, Inc." at 29:50, and https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001rhkj, "Sono" at 29:35), National Public Radio, [5] Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Genoa, Radio Free Amsterdam, Poetry Unbound and The Slowdown; and translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Croatian, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and Bengali. [6] [7] [8]

Music and theatre

Choral and vocal settings of her poems, composed by Mayako Kubo for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Chorusorganisation, Koreanische Frauengruppe Berlin, and Japanische Fraueninitiative Berlin, premiered at Pablo Casals Hall, Tokyo, and were performed at St. Mathias Church, Berlin and St. Geltow Church, Potsdam. Vocal settings of her work, composed by Jerome Blais, premiered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), then were later performed by the Solera Quartet at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 2019, and recorded by WFMT-Chicago. Kim co-authored Private Property, a multimedia play showcased at Playwrights Horizons (NY) and produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland). [9] [10]

Personal life

Kim married Raymond Short in 2007. [11] She lives in London.. [12] [13]

Awards

Works

Anthologies

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References

  1. ↑ "Gladstone's Library Writers in Residence 2024 Announced". https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/suji-kwock-kim-residency-reading//}}
  2. ↑ "Suji Kwock Kim | Poetry Foundation". 17 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Academy of American Poets profile
  4. ↑ PEN Member profile Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Siegel, Robert. "Korean Poet Suji Kwock Kim". NPR . Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  6. ↑ "Suji Kwock Kim | Poetry Foundation". 17 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Academy of American Poets profile
  8. ↑ PEN Member profile Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ "Suji Kwock Kim | Poetry Foundation". 17 January 2022.
  10. ↑ PEN Member profile Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ "Suji Kim and Raymond Short". The New York Times. 15 April 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  12. ↑ Waller, Rhian (14 July 2023). "Writers in Residence 2024 shortlist announced!". Gladstones Library. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  13. ↑ "Suji Kwock Kim and Dove Cottage Poets: Poetry in the Garden-Orchard". Wordsworth Grasmere. June 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  14. ↑ Academy of American Poets profile
  15. ↑ 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards announcement Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ "Suji Kwock Kim".
  17. ↑ Griffin Poetry Prize biography
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