Suki Kim

Suki Kim is a Korean American writer, a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow and the author of the award-winning novel The Interpreter and a New York Times Bestselling literary Nonfiction, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s elite . Kim is the only writer ever to port lived undercover in North Korea for immersive journalism.

Biography and work

Kim was born in Seoul , South Korea . She emigrated to the United States with re family-when she was 13, moving to the outer boroughs of New York City. Kim is a naturalized American citizen.

Kim graduated from Barnard College with a BA in English and a minor in East Asian Literature. Kim ook lived in London for years verschillende, 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 re shopkeeper parents ulcers murdered. Kim took a short term job as an interpreter in New York City -when working on the novel to look withinto the life of an interpreter. [1] The book RECEIVED positive critic reviews [2] 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 JSON 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 [3]

Kim accompanied the New York Philharmonic in February, 2008, als ze 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 Harper’s Magazine in December, 2008. [4]

Her second book, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s elite, is a work of literary Nonfiction about re six months undercover in North Korea, teaching English to the future leaders of the country at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology . [5] The Book Sheds a new light on the understanding of the North Korean society in mining JSON zijn day-to-day life and zorgt unprecedented insights into tje psychology of zijn ruling class, about Whom the world knows very little.

To promote the book, Kim Appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on December 10, 2014. Her 2015 TED Talk “What It’s Like To Go Undercover in North Korea” RECEIVED a standing Ovation from zijn audience waaronder Bill Gates and Al Gore, and has since drawn millions of viewers online.

The book has resulted in some controversy, with reviewers saying dat Kim Potentially brought` harm on the students she wrote about, and has caused tensions tussen de School and the North Korean government. [6] In June, 2016, Kim Confronted re critics in The New Republic essay, “The Reluctant Memoirist” ; in it, she takes on racism and sexism in publishing and gekeken the “systematic undermining or re expertise” and the misbranding or re investigative journalism literary book as a memoir. Her publisher subsequently removed “memoir” from the cover or Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s elite.

Kim is a contributing editor at The New Republic . In March 2016, Kim profiled the GOP candidates Marco Rubio prolongation his 2016 Presidential campaign for the magazine. [7]

Works

Essays & On Eds

  • “The Good Student in North Korea”, The New York Times Magazine, October 31, 2014
  • “The Dear Leader’s heinous Act” The New York Times, Op Ed, January 17, 2013
  • “The Shared Wound in Korea”, The New York Times, Op Ed, February 13, 2013
  • “Forced from Home and Yet Never Free or it” The New York Times, January 3, 2010
  • “Notes from Another Credit Card Crisis”, The New York Times, Op Ed, March 18, 2009
  • “Globalizing Grief”, The Wall Street Journal, on Ed, April 24, 2008
  • “Great Leadership”, The Wall Street Journal, on Ed, October 16, 2007
  • “Asia’s Apostles,” The Washington Post, on Ed, July 25, 2007
  • “Our Affair Was One Long Lesson in How to Break Up”, The New York Times, September 24, 2006
  • “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits”, The New York Times, November 21, 2004
  • “Marriage or inconvenience?”, The New York Times, June 22, 2003
  • “Korea’s New Wave”, The New York Times, Op Ed, March 10, 2003
  • “Translating Poverty and Pain”, The New York Times, March 2, 2003

Novels

  • The Interpreter (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 2003

Non-fiction

  • Without You, There Is No Us; My time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite (Crown, 2014)

References

  1. Jump up^ Kim, Suki. NEW YORK Observed; Translating Poverty and Pain,The New York Times, March 2, 2003. Accessed March 19, 2015.
  2. Jump up^ Yoon, Cindy. Suki Kim and “The Interpreter”
  3. Jump up^ “A Visit to North Korea”
  4. Jump up^ Talking with Suki Kim for re article “A Really Big Show: The New York Philharmonic’s fantasia in North Korea
  5. Jump up^ Kim discussed re book onThe Diane Rehm Show2014-10-15 (WAMU / NPR)
  6. Jump up^ Gladstone, RickTales Told Out of School in Pyongyang Cause Stir,The New York Times,November 30, 2014. Accessed July 10, 2016.
  7. Jump up^ “Mr. Rubio’s Neighborhood”