Author record · 2015 to 2025

Kim Hyesoon: Awards and Best-of Lists

Kim Hyesoon has won 2 awards, including the Griffin Poetry Prize (2019) for Autobiography of Death, with 3 shortlist or finalist places and 3 longlist or nominee places in our archive.

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2025Phantom Pain WingsWarwick Prize for Women in Translation source (opens in a new tab)Longlist · TranslationDon Mee Choi
2023Phantom Pain WingsNational Book Critics Circle Awards source (opens in a new tab)Winner · PoetryDon Mee Choi
2023Phantom Pain WingsNational Book Critics Circle Awards source (opens in a new tab)Finalist · Gregg Barrios Book in Translation PrizeDon Mee Choi
2020A Drink of Red MirrorBest Translated Book Award source (opens in a new tab)Longlist · PoetryJiwon Shin and Lauren Albin and Sue Hyon Bae
2019Autobiography of DeathGriffin Poetry Prize source (opens in a new tab)Winner · InternationalDon Mee Choi
2019Autobiography of DeathBest Translated Book Award source (opens in a new tab)Finalist · PoetryDon Mee Choi
2015Sorrowtoothpaste MirrorcreamPEN America Literary Awards source (opens in a new tab)Finalist · PEN Award for Poetry in TranslationDon Mee Choi
2015Sorrowtoothpaste MirrorcreamBest Translated Book Award source (opens in a new tab)Longlist · PoetryDon Mee Choi

Books

  1. Autobiography of Death2 sources · 2019
  2. Phantom Pain Wings2 sources · 2023 to 2025
  3. Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream2 sources · 2015
  4. A Drink of Red Mirror1 source · 2020