Chi-Young Kim, Translator
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About 

Chi-Young is an award-winning literary translator and editor based in Los Angeles. A recipient of the Man Asian Literary Prize (2011), she has translated works by Gu Byeong-mo, Ae-ran Kim, Cheon Myeong-kwan, Kyung Ran Jo, and Kyung-sook Shin, among others.

Awards

• Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2023)

​• Awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize (2011)

Contact

For translation and editorial inquiries, please email [email protected].

Publications

2025
Blowfish

A Thousand Blues

2024
Apartment Women (US)/Your Neighbour's Table (UK)

2023
Whale

2022
The Old Woman with the Knife

2021
It's OK, Slow Lizard

My Brilliant Life

2020
Seven Years of Darkness

2019
Little Mole's Wish  

Marilyn and Me (UK)/The Starlet and the Spy (US)

​Miracle on Cherry Hill


2018
The Good Son ​

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2017
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down 

2016
The Boy Who Escaped Paradise

The Dog Who Dared to Dream
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2014
The Investigation

2013
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

​2011
Please Look After Mom

2010
Your Republic Is Calling You 

2009
Tongue

2007
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself 
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Toy City