Making Literature Travel

Anna Kim was born in 1977 in Daejeon, South Korea, moving to Germany in 1979, when her father took up an academic post in fine arts. Since then, she has returned to South Korea several times for short visits.  She has published several short stories, essays and poems in newspapers, literary magazines and anthologies. Her three novels are Anatomie einer Nacht (Anatomy of a Night, 2012), Die gefrorene Zeit (Frozen Time, 2008) – which has been translated into English and Albanian – and Die Bilderspur (The Trace of Pictures, 2004), and her essay, based on a visit to Greenland,  Invasionen des Privaten (Invasions of Privacy), was published in  2011. She lives in Vienna.