Anna Kim, born in 1977 in Daejeon, South Korea, has lived in Vienna since 1979, where she studied philosophy and theater studies. Her debut volume Die Bilderspur was published by Droschl in 2004, followed in 2008 by the novel Die frozen time. Afterwards she published invasions of the private in the essay series of the Droschl publishing house and the novel Anatomie einer Nacht (2012). In spring 2013 Kim started the art project »Rohbau der Zukunft_TM« with Anderwald-Grond.
In part for The Frozen Time, Anna Kim received the Heinrich Treichl Prize 2009, the Promotion Prize for Literature of the Republic of Austria (2009) and the Elias Canetti Scholarship (2009) and the European Union Prize for Literature (2012).