Anna Kim

Anna Kim was born in Daejeon, South Korea, in 1977. In 1979, her family moved to Germany and then to Vienna, Austria, where she lives today. She has received numerous prizes and fellowships for her fiction and essays, including the European Union Prize for Literature.

Awards (selection)

Veza-Canetti-Preis 2023
Shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2022 for Geschichte eines Kindes
Longlisted for the German Book Prize 2022 for Geschichte eines Kindes
Robert Musil Fellowship 2010
Austrian State Fellowship for Literature 2009
Elias Canetti Fellowship 2009
Austrian Prize for Literature 2009

PUBLICATIONS

The Alliance of the 3½ (Volume 1) – The Treasure Hunt

Year of Publication: 2024

Anna KimYear of Publication: 2024

The Alliance of the 3½ (Volume 1) – The Treasure Hunt

Feli has to spend the summer holidays with her aunt in the small village of Worms. How boring, she thinks at first. At least she has her robot dachshund Frankenstein with her. He likes to dive headlong into wastepaper baskets when he’s not gnawing on a flash drive. While exploring her aunt’s villa, Feli and Frankenstein come across a big, old cupboard. Inside is a secret entrance to a seemingly...

Year of Publication: 2022

Anna KimYear of Publication: 2022

Story of a Child

In a small town in the US state of Wisconsin, twenty-year-old telephone operator Carol Truttman gives birth to a child in July 1953. That same night, she gives the boy up for adoption. Daniel, as...

Rights sold to:

Portuguese rights (Dom Quixote), Korea (Eulyoo), Greece (Nissos)

Year of Publication: 2017

Anna KimYear of Publication: 2017

The Great Homecoming

Seoul, April 1960. Johnny Kim, his lover Eve Moon and his best friend since childhood, Yunho Kang, are fleeing from the infamous Northwest Youth, an anti-communist, paramilitary goon squad serving...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Granta), Netherlands (Signatuur)

Year of Publication: 2012

Anna KimYear of Publication: 2012

Anatomy of a Night

»Prologue: the epidemic reached its apex in the late summer, on the cusp of autumn. The eleven suicides happened in the space of five hours, on Friday night and in the early hours of Saturday,...

Rights sold to:

France (Jacqueline Chambon), Denmark (Tiderne Skifter), Korea (Eulyoo), Poland (Jagiellonian UP), Bulgaria (Paradox), Turkey (Alti Kirk Bes), Ukraine (Stiletto & Stylus)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights digital (Frisch & Co.)

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Anna Kim

PUBLICATIONS

The Alliance of the 3½ (Volume 1) – The Treasure Hunt

Story of a Child

The Great Homecoming

Anatomy of a Night

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Anna Kim and Robert Menasse shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2022

Anna Kim and Robert Menasse longlisted for Austrian Book Prize 2022, Elspaß shortlisted for Debut Prize

Anna Kim and Esther Kinsky longlisted for the German Book Prize 2022