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Chi-Young Kim

Biography

Chi-Young Kim

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 You-jeong Jeong, Sun-mi Hwang, Young-ha Kim, Kyung Ran Jo, J.M. Lee and Kyung-sook Shin, among others.

Chi-Young Kim

Books by Chi-Young Kim

Please Look After Mom
written by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Chi-Young Kim - Fiction

When 69-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mom?