Suki Kim Tells Stories from NKorea on ‘The Daily Show’ Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She emigrated to the United States with her family when she was 13, moving to New York.[1] Kim is a naturalized American citizen. Kim graduated from Barnard College with a BA in English and a minor in East Asian Literature. Kim also lived in London for several years, studying Korean literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She received a Fulbright Research Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Open Society Foundations 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.[2] The book received positive critic reviews[3] and won the PEN Beyond Margins Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award and was a finalist for a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Interpreter was translated into Dutch, French, Korean, Italian, and Japanese. Kim visited North Korea in February, 2002, to participate in the 60th Birthday Celebration of Kim Jong-il and wrote a cover essay for the New York Review of Books[4] Kim accompanied the New York Philharmonic in February, 2008, when they traveled to Pyongyang for the historical cultural visit to North Korea from the United States. Her article, “A Really Big Show: The New York Philharmonic’s fantasia in North Korea” was published in Harpers Magazine in December, 2008.[5] Her latest book, Without You, There Is No Us, is a work of non-fiction about her six months teaching English to the children of North Korean elites at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.[6] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suki_Kim
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