Young-ha Kim

Young-ha Kim is a South Korean novelist and short story writer, born in 1968, whose work explores urban alienation, identity and modern capitalism. His debut novel, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996), established his reputation, and his historical novel Black Flower won the Dong-in Literary Award in 2004. Your Republic Is Calling You, about a man called back to South Korea from the West, earned him the Manhae Literary Award. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 2010 to 2011.