The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Hwang Sun-mi
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Hwang Sun-mi
Hwang Sun-mi (born 1963) is a South Korean author and professor who is best known for her fable The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, which has also been made into a successful animated film in South Korea, Leafie, A Hen into the Wild.
Life
Born in 1963 as the second of five children, Hwang was unable to attend middle school due to poverty, but thanks to a teacher who gave her a key to a classroom, she could go to the school and read books whenever she wanted. She enrolled in high school by taking a certificate examination and she graduated from the creative writing departments at Seoul Institute of the Arts and Gwangju University, and from graduate school at Chung-Ang University. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.
Hwang is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Literature in the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Hwang's career as a writer began in 1995, and since then she has published nearly 30 books over various genres. She is most famous for her work The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, which was also made into a movie that broke Korean box office records for animated films, earning nearly 7 billion won in its first month of release.
Work
Upon its publication in 2000, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly became an instant classic, remaining on bestseller lists for ten years, selling over 2 million copies, and inspiring the highest-grossing animated film in Korean history. It has also been adapted into a comic book, a play, and a musical, and has been translated into 27 languages.[4][5] The author said in an interview that she had based her book around her farmer father's sad and struggling life.
Hwang's work addresses the intersections between tradition and modernity, ecology, and the search for freedom. She is most known for her fantasy work and has won the SBS Media Literary Award (2001) and the 36th Sejong Children's Literature Prize (2003).
Q. Have you read the original version of the book and watched the movie? What is the difference between them? What was the best?
Q. What is the meaning of the main characters?
Q. Why do you think that name is important for life?
Q. Describe the differences and the similarities between the society in the book and Korea.
Q. If you are not able or don’t want to give a birth, would you like to adopt babies?
Q. Why adoptions are so rare in Korea?
Q. When is the luckiest moment in your life?
Q. Can you devote to your children as Sprout did?
Q. What is the lesson of the book for children and adult?
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