Anna Kim

Anna Kim studied at University of Vienna. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is poetry and creative and professional writing. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are prose. Works named in the authority record are Frozen Time. Distinctions recorded are Elias Canetti scholarship, European Union Prize for Literature, Austrian Promotional Prize for Literature and Veza Canetti award.

Kim was born in Daejeon, South Korea in 1977 but moved to Germany in 1979. She received a master's degree in philosophy and theatre studies from the University of Vienna. Since 1999, she has regularly published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. In 2012, Kim was Austria's winner of the European Union Prize for Literature for her second novel, Die gefrorene Zeit (translated in English as Frozen Time). Published in 2008, the novel covers a Kosovar man searching for his missing wife after the end of the Yugoslav wars. Kim lives in Vienna.

Die Bilderspur (The Trace of Pictures, 2004) – novel ISBN 3-85420-662-3 Das Sinken ein Bückflug (2006) – poetry collection Die gefrorene Zeit (Frozen Time, 2008) – novel ISBN 978-3-85420-742-9 Invasionen den Privaten (Invasions of Privacy, 2011) – essay ISBN 978-3-85420-781-8 Anatomie einer Nacht (Anatomy of a Night, 2012) – novel ISBN 978-3-518-46478-6 Die große Heimkehr (The Great Homecoming, 2017) - novel ISBN 978-3-518-46888-3 Geschichte eines Kindes (Story of a Child, 2022) - novel ISBN 978-3-518-47364-1