Take 5 with Anna Kim

Five questions to authors and artists. With a common question we get a personal perspective on what shapes their views. 1 - What book most inspired you to be a writer? 2 - Is there a book that you wished you had written? 3 - Is there any subject that you think does not belong between the covers of a book? 4 - What book would you most want read to you? 5 - Do you think you would have been a storyteller in the days before print? About the author: Anna Kim was born in 1977 in Daejeon, South Korea, moving to Germany in 1979, when her father took up an academic post in fine arts. Since then, she has returned to South Korea several times for short visits. She studied Philosophy and Theatre Studies at the University of Vienna and wrote her master thesis on Georg Lukács´ Theory of the Novel. She has published several short stories, essays and poems in newspapers, literary magazines and anthologies. Her three novels are Anatomie einer Nacht (Anatomy of a Night, 2012), Die gefrorene Zeit (Frozen Time, 2008) - which has been translated into English and Albanian - and Die Bilderspur (The Trace of Pictures, 2004). She has also written a collection of poems, Das Sinken ein Bückflug. Anna has received numerous awards and lives in Vienna.