Suji Kwock Kim

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Suji Kwock Kim
Alma materYale College,
Iowa Writers' Workshop,
Seoul National University,
Yonsei University
GenrePoetry, Plays

Suji Kwock Kim is a Korean-American-British poet-playwright.

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Life

She 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.

Her 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 [1] , 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. [2] [3] [4]

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. She is co-author of Private Property, a multimedia play showcased at Playwrights Horizons (NY), produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), and featured on BBC-TV. [5] [6]

Awards

Works

Anthologies

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References

  1. Siegel, Robert. "Korean Poet Suji Kwock Kim". NPR . Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  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. "Suji Kwock Kim | Poetry Foundation". 17 January 2022.
  6. PEN Member profile Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Academy of American Poets profile
  8. 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards announcement Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Suji Kwock Kim".
  10. Griffin Poetry Prize biography