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Suki Kim

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Suki Kim (born 김숙희 1970) is a Korean American writer, a 2006 Guggenheim fellow and the author of the award winning novel The Interpreter.

im was born in Seoul, South Korea. She emigrated to United States with her family when she was 13, moving to New York.[2] Kim is a naturalized American citizen.

Kim graduated from Barnard College in 1992, with a BA in English, minor in East Asian Literature. Right after her graduation, Kim went to London to study Korean literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies. After a year-and-a-half of graduate study in Korean literature, Kim returned to New York City to pursue a writing career. She received a Fulbright Research Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Her debut novel The Interpreter is a murder...more