Juhea Kim
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Juhea Kim

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Juhea Kim's internationally bestselling debut novel Beasts of a Little Land was a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. It won the 2024 Yasnaya Polyana Award, the largest annual literary prize in Russia awarded by the Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate. She donated the entire prize money to the conservation of Siberian tigers and Amur leopards. Beasts of a Little Land has been published in 13 countries to date. Beasts of a Little Land also has been optioned for a TV series, for which Juhea is serving as an executive producer. Her second novel City of Night Birds is forthcoming from Ecco (US) in November 2024 and Oneworld (UK) in January 2025. From 2021 to the end of 2023, she donated a portion of the worldwide proceeds of Beasts of a Little Land to the Phoenix Fund, a Siberian tiger and Amur leopard conservation nonprofit based in Vladivostok, Russia. Since 2024, she has been donating associated royalties and prize money to tiger and leopard conservation through the Korean Tiger Leopard Conservation Fund 한국범보전기금, due to changes in political circumstances. She also serves as a goodwill ambassador for KTLCF. She donates a portion of the worldwide proceeds of City of Night Birds to Caritas Somalia, a development and emergency aid NGO. Juhea was born in Incheon, Korea, and moved to Portland, Oregon, at age nine. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Art and Archaeology. She lives in London.
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