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 Collier Short
(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 and grandparents were born in what is now North Korea. Her maternal great-grandfather co-founded the Korean Language Society and was a linguistics professor and dean at Yonsei University in Seoul. [2]

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.

Career

Kim's work has been published in The Best American Poetry , The New York Times , The 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 Review and 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, [3] the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Genoa, Radio Free Amsterdam, and Poetry Unbound; and translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Croatian, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and Bengali. [4] [5] [6]

Music and theatre

Choral 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 in December 2007. Vocal settings of her work, composed by Jerome Blais, premiered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and were recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in March 2007. It was 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), produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK), and featured on the BBC. [7] [8]

Personal life

Kim married Raymond Collier Short in 2007. [9] She lives in London. [2]

Awards

Works

Anthologies

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  8. PEN Member profile Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
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  10. Academy of American Poets profile
  11. 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards announcement Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
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