Begin a story with a spinster, nearly psychotic, deluded, clearly suicidal chicken. Try to kill her, but let her escape a genocidal murder attempt. Then, have the chicken get involved with someone not only from another culture, but from a different species. Then, kill off that character. Have the chicken raise an orphan from another species,…
Chi-Young Kim, translator extraordinaire (Please Look After Mom and Your Republic is Calling You, among a string of triumphs) and sometime chum of KTLIT, took time out of her busy schedule to do an interview with KTLIT (actually, an interview for the students in my Ph.D. class, who are extremely interested in Kim’s experience and…
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…