Anna Kim was born in 1977 in Daejeon, South Korea and grew up in Austria, where she studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna. She is the author of four novels and two essay collections, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Austrian State Fellowship for Literature, the Elias Canetti Fellowship, the Robert Musil Fellowship, and the 2012 European Union Prize for Literature. Her novel Frozen Time was published in English translation in 2010, and her novel Anatomy of a Night in 2012. Her books have also been translated into French, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Macedonian, Albanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Turkish.
