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Translator: Anton Hur

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Selected translations

Publications by Anton Hur as author

Translations by Anton Hur available online

  • Bora Chung: The Head tr Anton Hur, Samovar 2019
  • Sang Young Park: The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta tr Anton Hur, Words Without Borders 2019
  • Jung Young-su: Aficionados tr Anton Hur, Asymptote 2016
  • Jeon Sam-hye: Genesis tr Anton Hur, Words Without Borders 2016

Bora Chung: The Midnight Timetable

event date Thu 23 Oct 2025 venue Royal Festival Hall posted

Hear from the author of Cursed Bunny on her new novel, The Midnight Timetable, a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time’s greatest imaginations. Bora Chung, author of the National Book Award finalist and International Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, discusses her novel The Midnight Timetable, equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and … [Read More]

Book talk: Sohn Won-Pyung’s Counterattacks at Thirty

event date Wed 26 Mar 2025 venue KCCUK posted

In celebration of the UK publication of ‘Counterattacks at Thirty’ by Sohn Won-Pyung, the KCC is bringing you an online event featuring translator Sean Lin Halbert and Anton Hur, an award-winning translator of Cursed Bunny, Love in the Big City, and author of Toward Eternity.⁠ ⁠ We’ll be diving into:⁠ – The art of translation … [Read More]

Book talk: Anton Hur – Toward Eternity

event date Fri 16 Aug 2024 venue KCCUK posted

Renowned translator of the International Booker Prize shortlisted novel Cursed Bunny, Anton Hur returns with his debut novel ‘Toward Eternity’. Toward Eternity explores the unexpected consequences of progress, imagining when technology is catching up with biology. It is a thought-provoking novel that challenges the notion of what makes us human—and how love survives even the end … [Read More]

Strangers Press releases a new series of eight short story translations

posted updated 12 Jan 2025 by Philip Gowman 2 minute read

Strangers Press, which brought us Yeoyu, a series of eight translated short story chapbooks in 2019, this week released a follow-up. The new series is entitled Iyagi and features works by both established and emerging authors – including what seems to be a posthumously published work by Park Wansuh. According to the publisher, “Each of these … [Read More]

A look back at our 2022 reading diary

posted updated 27 Dec 2023 by Philip Gowman 4 minute read

It was a busy year outside of my Korean interests, with the result that I didn’t read as much as I would like. And of the titles that I did read, I haven’t had a chance yet formally to write up my thoughts – though there are several half-written reviews which may eventually see the … [Read More]

Upcoming literature and fiction titles for 2022

posted updated 2 Feb 2025 by Philip Gowman 4 minute read

Last year was an amazing one for Korean literature in translation, with plenty of lively titles published. 2022 looks for the moment like it’s going to be a little quieter, but new publications sometimes pop out of nowhere, so this list of anticipated books for this year is almost bound to be proved incomplete. There … [Read More]

A look back at our 2021 reading diary

posted updated 31 Jan 2025 by Philip Gowman 3 minute read

Looking back at this year, it’s been one of the best for new translations of Korean literature that I can remember. There have been at least ten new fiction titles, and unusually for me I managed to get through all the titles I was intending to. All of them are recommendable in their different ways. … [Read More]

Review: Hwang Sok-yong – The Prisoner

posted updated 24 Jan 2025 by Philip Gowman 4 minute read

How to review the autobiography of one of Korean’s leading novelists, who has won accclaim both sides of the border; who has spent five years in prison as well as being a person of interest to the authorities for much of his professional career? The memoir makes for fascinating reading as literary history: most of … [Read More]