Kim Ae-ran

Ae-ran Kim (; born 1980) is a South Korean writer.

Life Kim was born in Incheon in 1980. She is a graduate of the Korea National University of Arts.

Work Kim's debut work "No Knocking in This House," a short story published in 2003, is about five women living in five separate rooms in a boarding house, where the rooms are tiny and close together. It won Daesan Literary Award.

Next, her short story collection, Run, Daddy, Run, entered the spotlight, earning her the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award in 2005. Twenty-five years old at the time of the award, Kim was the youngest award winner ever recorded, which was all the more unprecedented as she was also a new writer who had not yet published any short story collections.

In 2008, her short story "Knife Marks" won the Yi Hyosŏk Literary Award. Likewise, she was the youngest to ever be awarded this prize. It was a bestseller, and in 2014 was adapted into the E J-yong film My Brilliant Life starring Kang Dong-won and Song Hye-kyo. The English translation of the novel is scheduled to be published by Forge Books in January, 2021.

Personal life and teaching career In 2014, she was writer in residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

Awards Daesan Literary Award (2002) Hankook Ilbo Literary Award (2005) Yi Hyosŏk Literary Award Yi Sang Literary Award (2013) Prix de l'Inaperçu Literary Award (2014)

Works in translation Ascending Scales (From Words Without Borders) Knife Marks (From LTI Korea) Christmas Specials (Asia Publishing) 老爸，快跑 (달려라, 아비) Cours papa, cours! (달려라, 아비) "The Future of Silence" (in The Future of Silence Fiction By Korean Women) Corre, pare, corre! (달려라, 아비) (Godall edicions, 2017) ] ¡Corre, papá, corre! (달려라, 아비)(Godall Edicions, 2018) My Brilliant Life (두근두근 내 인생) (Forge Books, 2021) ]