Anna Kim

Anna Kim reads from Die gefrorene Zeit (Vienna, 2008)

Anna Kim (born September 10, 1977 in Daejeon / South Korea ) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Anna Kim came to West Germany in 1979 . At first she lived in Braunschweig and Gießen , from 1984 in Vienna , where she attended high school in Wenzgasse . From 1995 to 2000 she studied philosophy and theater studies at the University of Vienna ; she completed this course with a master's degree . From 2000 to 2002 she lived in London and Cambridge , after which she returned to Vienna.

Kim is a writer of narrative prose and poetry . From 1999 she published her work in various literary journals such as manuscripts , Zwischenwelt and VOLLTEXT . Her first novel , Die Bilderspur , was published in 2004.

She has been a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly since 2000 . In 2004 she received a Vienna writers' grant . In 2005 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .

Her second novel was published in 2008 with Die gefrorene Zeit . Against the background of the unexplained fate of the 30,000 or so people who were registered missing after the wars in Yugoslavia , she tells the story of a Kosovar's search for his missing wife. On the one hand, she describes everyday life in the still conflict-ridden region of the Albanian-Kosovar-Serbian border area; on the other hand, she also gives an insight into the work of the archaeologists and forensic scientists who strive to identify the found dead, and the employees of the Red Cross who use their questionnaires to collect the “ ante-mortem data ” of the disappeared.

In the context of the project mitS Sprachwegs, organized by eleven Austrian literary institutions , Anna Kim traveled to Greenland in 2009/2010 and wrote the literary report The Invasion of the Private on the subject of postcolonialism and identity in Greenland. In 2012 the novel Anatomy of a Night was published , which also takes up the living situation of the people in Greenland.

Her novel The Great Homecoming was published in early 2017 . In the same year her prose volume Fingerpflanze followed , which was created in collaboration with the Norwegian artist Kristian Evju.

Awards

• 2009: Heinrich Treichl Prize of the Austrian Red Cross
• 2009: Elias Canetti Scholarship
• 2009: Grant from HALMA , the European network of literary centers
• 2010: Robert Musil grant
• 2012: European Union Literature Prize for Frozen Time
• 2017: Artist in Residence at Villa Sträuli in Winterthur

Works (selection)

• Exile. In: Zwischenwelt. Literature - Resistance - Exile. No. 2, 2002.
• Traces of images. In: manuscripts. No. 156, 2002.
• The unconditional touch. In: manuscripts. No. 162, 2003.
• Hidden language . In: Zwischenwelt. Literature - Resistance - Exile. No. 1, 2004.
• Experiment and war. In: TRANS. No. 15, 2004.
• Making of. In: full text. No. 4, 2004.
• The picture trail. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-85420-662-3 .
• The hiding place . In: drafts - magazine for literature. Issue 43, 2005
• The archive . Text of the reading at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 2005 .
• Stray dogs drifting. with pictures by Anna Stangl . Comet Books, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-9502046-4-4 .
• The frozen time . Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85420-742-9 .
• The form of memory. In: Triëdere - magazine for theory and art. Issue 2/2010.
• Invasions of the private . Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 2011, ISBN 978-3-85420-781-8 .
• Anatomy of a night. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42323-3 .
• The visible enemy. The violence of the public and the right to privacy. (= Keep restless ). Residence, St. Pölten 2015, ISBN 978-3-7017-1639-5 .
• The great homecoming. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42545-9 .
• Finger plants . With and after pictures by Kristian Evju. Topalian & Milani Verlag , Ulm 2017, ISBN 978-3946423089 .

Web links

• Anna Kim's website
• Short biography and information on Anna Kim's work at Literaturport
• Literature by and about Anna Kim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Portrait of the author
• Peter Landerl / Literaturhaus Wien: Review of Die gefrorene Zeit , August 27, 2008
• Konstantin Kountouroyanis: When the past entered the present ... - Review of Anna Kim's novel: “The great homecoming”. In: DaF-Szene Korea No. 44, pp. 42–45, Ed. Lektoren-Vereinigung Korea, Berlin-Seoul 2017 (print), PDF: DaF-Szene Korea. No. 44 , May 2017, accessed June 10, 2017
• Konstantin Kountouroyanis: Anna Kim speaks about a taboo topic in Korea - reading at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague. In: prag aktuell: June 10, 2017, accessed on June 20, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Anna Kim: The great homecoming. Berlin 2017, blurb on the back and suhrkamp.de, accessed on June 29, 2017.
2. ↑ mitLilingual on the way: Travel project Anna Kim: Colonialism and Identity - Colonialism in Greenland ( Memento from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Der Standard : Interview: “We like to be fooled”. September 7, 2012.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Daniela Strigl: The rabbit who doesn't need a rabbit costume. In: Falter . No. 11/2017, p. 21.
5. ↑ droschl.com accessed on June 29, 2017.