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14 set 2015 · Suki Kim is the author of the award-winning novel The Interpreter and the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Open Society fellowships. She has been traveling to North Korea as a journalist since 2002, and her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and the New York Review of Books.
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has accepted a job teaching English.
22 ott 2014 · American journalist Suki Kim spent six months teaching English at a North Korean University that serves the sons of the elite. She chronicles her experience in a new book, Without You, There Is No Us.
Suki Kim urodziła się w 1970 roku. W wieku 13 lat wyemigrowała wraz z rodziną do Nowego Jorku. W 1992 roku ukończyła Barnard College i udała się na studia do wyższej szkoły orientalnej i afrykańskiej w Londynie [2]. Za książkę "The Interpreter: A Novel" otrzymała dwie nagrody PEN Beyond Margins Award i Gustavus Myers Outstanding ...
For six months, Suki Kim worked as an English teacher at an elite school for North Korea's future leaders -- while writing a book on one of the world's most repressive regimes. As she helped her students grapple with concepts like "truth" and "critical thinking," she came to wonder: Was teaching these students to seek the truth putting them in peril? (This talk was part of a session at TED2015 ...
Suki Kim nació en Seúl. A los trece años se trasladó con su familia a Estados Unidos, pero la preocupación por la situación política de su país natal ha acompañado siempre su labor literaria. Becada entre otras por las fundaciones Guggenheim, Fulbright y Open Society, cautivó a la opinión pública con su primera novela, The Interpreter.
11 dic 2014 · Suki Kim’s “Without You, There Is No Us,” a chilling memoir of this Korean-American author’s 2011 stint as a visiting English instructor at a North Korean university, takes its title ...
