KTLIT has been in contact with Oh Jeeyon, from Penguin Books, about Hwang Sun-mi’s upcoming publication of The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly which is scheduled to be released (available on Amazon) on November 26, 2013. Ms. Oh was nice enough to forward to me the following pre-publication information/buzz (which includes that happy news…
NOTE: This is an update of a previous post from last year it is interesting to note that elsewhere in this interview she expressed relative certainty about the eventual success of Please Take Care of Mother. Last September I was lucky enough to catch up with Chi-Young Kim at the 4th International Translators’ Conference at…
A couple of young bloggers, who came across my radar as I was searching for other things, who are really, REALLY good.^^ Ryung068 is a blog by a young scholar who appears to be Korean and interested in translation. Some good stuff here including some translation of what looks like original poetry. But I was…
A great email interview with Chi-Young Kim in the JoongAng Daily in which she frankly discusses some of the changes needed when translating from Korean to English. One of the money quotes: Do you have your own principles for translating? My principle is that translated books should give readers almost the same feelings as the…
A nicely matched set of interviews. First, over at the Ask A Korean blog (an invaluable take on aspects of Korean culture), The Korean translates an interview in the Dong-A Ilbo with the author of Please Take Care of Mom, Shin Kyung-sook. It begins with a perhaps over-optimistic take on the role of the KLTI…
Mythili G. Rao writes a brief review of Please Look After Mom under the title “A Woman Goes Missing in Seoul,” in the New York Time Book Review and its another one to add to the long hit list. Mythili notes (and rightfully mentions brilliant translator Chi-Young Kim): Shin’s prose, intimate and hauntingly spare in…
“Your Republic is Calling You” is taut, engaging, ironic, scathing, brutal and resigned in turns.
Well, That post title was perhaps a bit too much… But check Indieful’s post out, because it combines some news about a new book (in Korean) from Kim. Indieful begins with: It’s been quiet from MOT for a while, but at least founding member Aeon still has a few projects ongoing. Featuring music not that…
Chi-Young Kim’s translation of Young-Ha Kim’s “Pitǔi Cheguk,” will be called “Your Republic is Calling You.” It will publish, Fall 2001. Chi-Young Kim is also translating Shin Kyung-Sook’s “Please Look After Mom.”
This is nice on two levels… Some time ago I predicted that a Korean author would eventually get recognition from a literary magazine in the US. My reasoning was that an article would come in, and editor would say, “hey, this is from Korea, have we done anything from Korea?” Then self-same editor would realize…