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Grace Kim

Grace Kim immigrated to South Africa with her family at the age of two, and is currently studying at Universiteit Stellenbosch for her MA in English with a focus on marginalized South African narratives. She loves bubbles, likes strawberries, dislikes cigarette smoke, and hates the feeling of nausea. When she’s not going through existential crises about her writing, her drug of choice is poetry and has had some of her work published by local journals and publications. Writing reviews is a new adventure for her. 


Articles

  • Monday, August 9, 2010

    For Cape Town, South Africa, the World Cup may have come and gone, but some things never change. Fears of a resurgence in violence surfaced as soon as the Spaniards went home with their...

  • Tuesday, May 18, 2010

    Xenophobia, AIDS, inner-city violence, immigration, and disillusionment. These are not light subjects, but when you live in Hillbrow, the inner-city section of Johannesburg, they're the stuff...

  • Thursday, December 17, 2009

    Thirteen Cents is the coming of age novel of Azure, a street child trying to survive the shadowy streets of Cape Town. Grace Kim reviews the first novel of K. Sello...

  • Monday, November 2, 2009

    Most literature coming out of South Africa that deals with racial issues focuses on apartheid. Yet the country's problems with race are set deeper in its history. The enslavement of black...

  • Sunday, October 11, 2009

    What role does literature play in the healing process? A necessary one argues reviewer Grace Kim. In 1998 Boubacar Boris Diop was one of ten African writers to participate in the...

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