Ijen Kim

Ijen Kim grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, left for Paris to continue her studies, and then moved to Russia, working in Moscow as a journalist and translator. She is now based in Vienna. She is also an artist and poet. Her first novel was published in Russian, and she has two novels published in English - The Snuff Bottle Boy and The Sunset Emperor. She knows several languages, European and Asian, and is a keen political observer, with particular interest in the workings of authoritarian...See more

Ijen Kim grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, left for Paris to continue her studies, and then moved to Russia, working in Moscow as a journalist and translator. She is now based in Vienna. She is also an artist and poet. Her first novel was published in Russian, and she has two novels published in English - The Snuff Bottle Boy and The Sunset Emperor. She knows several languages, European and Asian, and is a keen political observer, with particular interest in the workings of authoritarian systems. Ijen Kim lives in Austria and In the Shadows is her first collection of short stories. See less