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Juhea Kim
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Juhea Kim

How to pronounce Juhea Kim: jew-hey-yah kim

Juhea Kim Biography

Juhea Kim is the author of the novel Beasts of a Little Land, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the winner of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, Russia's largest annual prize in literature. Beasts of a Little Land has been published around the world and is being adapted into a series. Kim is a graduate of Princeton University. Her writing has been published in Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, the Independent, Zyzzyva, Guernica, and other outlets. Born in Korea and raised in Portland, Oregon, Kim now lives in London.

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    Min Jin Lee's Pachinko (Feb 2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017, a USA Today Top 10 Books of 2017, and an American Booksellers Association's Indie ... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    Beasts of a Little Land

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    by Min Jin Lee

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    E. J. Koh is the author of The Magical Language of Others, which won a Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book... (more)

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    Try:
    The Liberators
    by E.J. Koh

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