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Interview with Kim Aeran

Interview with Kim Aeran by Jamie Chang Jamie Chang: Where do you find material for your stories? Kim Aeran: My first collection of short stories was largely based on stories about my family or my personal experience, and the city-- Seoul--played an important role in the second collection. Materials I draw upon tend to be on the periphery or in the magnetic fields of central events, not so much the events themselves. My stories tend to unfold in spaces where circumstances that are about to become a story or signs of stories gather. So sometimes, when I write about a city, I end up writing about everything minus the city, and when I write about fathers, the families I portray contain everything but the father. The basic material for my full-length novel was progeria--a disease of premature aging--but I couldn't tell what kind of story it was going to be until it was done. Come to think of it, materials for my stories have generally been things that attract my attention for reasons I can't explain rather than things that strike me as great ideas. Chang: Which foreign writers do you admire? How have they influenced your work, if at all? Kim: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture University of Hawai'I Press

Interview with Kim Aeran

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by Jamie Chang Jamie Chang: Where do you find material for your stories? Kim Aeran: My first collection of short stories was largely based on stories about my family or my personal experience, and the city-- Seoul--played an important role in the second collection. Materials I draw upon tend to be on the periphery or in the magnetic fields of central events, not so much the events themselves. My stories tend to unfold in spaces where circumstances that are about to become a story or signs of stories gather. So sometimes, when I write about a city, I end up writing about everything minus the city, and when I write about fathers, the families I portray contain everything but the father. The basic material for my full-length novel was progeria--a disease of premature aging--but I couldn't tell what kind of story it was going to be until it was done. Come to think of it, materials for my stories have generally been things that attract my attention for reasons I can't explain rather than things that strike me as great ideas. Chang: Which foreign writers do you admire? How have they influenced your work, if at all? Kim:

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Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Apr 25, 2012

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