Kim Soom began her career as a writer by winning the 1997 Daejeon Ilbo New Writer’s Contest with her short story “On Slowness” and the 1998 Munhakdongne New Writers’ Award for “Time in the Middle Ages.” She is the author of the short story collections Will I Be Able to Touch Wood?, Liver and Gallbladder, and Noodles; the novels Listening Time, Drifting Land, A Swallow Heart, The Lost Ones, and Okinawa Spy; and the novel-in-stories Rainbow Eyes, among others. She has won the Kim Hyeon Literary Competition, the Daesan Literary Award, the Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award, the Tong-ni Literature Prize, and more. Her work has been published in translation in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Japan, and Taiwan.
