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Korean Translator Anton Hur 2021.08.02 About Anton “A little too fluent”?South China Morning Post I am a writer and translator working in Seoul. I was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and raised in British Hong Kong, Ethiopia, and Thailand, but mostly in Korea, where I’ve lived for thirty years. I was awarded the title of Person of Distinguished Service to the Nation after serving in the Korean Army. ? Twitter: @AntonHur, Instagram: @AntonHur, Website: antonhur.com Book translations ? I Went to See My Father by Kyung-Sook Shin (Astra House, 2023) ? Violet by Kyung-Sook Shin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Feminist Press, 2022) ? Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (Moonji Books, 2021) ? Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park (Grove, Tilted Axis, 2021) ? Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (Honford Star, 2021) ? The Prisoner by Hwang Sok-yong (Verso, Penguin Random House US, 2021) ? The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae (Honford Star, 2018) ? The Court Dancer by Kyung-Sook Shin (Pegasus Books, 2018) Book chapters ? What Does It Mean to Decolonise Translation?: “The Mythical English Reader” (Tilted Axis, 2021) ? International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults: “Boys Who Wear Dresses: Queer Narrative Strategies in Korean Children’s Literature” (Anthem, 2021) ? The Valancourt Book of World Horror Vol. 2: “Masks” by Bora Chung (Valancourt, 2021) Other translations ? Samovar: “The Head” by Bora Chung ? Words Without Borders: “Genesis” by Jeon Sam-hye, “The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta” by Sang Young Park, “About My Daughter” by Kim Hye-jin, guest editor for 2019 feature on queer Korean literature ? The Guardian: Kyung-Sook Shin for “Seven novelists from around the world living with the pandemic” ? Asymptote Journal: “Aficionados” by Jung Young Su ? The Offing: “The Embodiment” by Bora Chung ? Chogwa: “The Snail” by Jin Eun-Young and others ? Modern Poetry in Translation: Chogwa revisions issue ? Anomaly: “A Spell to Invoke the White Dolphin” by Jeon Sam-hye ? Columbia Journal: “Nights in Lebanon” by Jung Young Su ? Westerly Magazine: Poetry by Shim Bo-seon and others ? Slice Magazine: Exquisite corpse project by Jeon Sam-hye ? Queen Mob’s Tea House: “The Joy of Music” by Jung Young Su ? Korean Literature Now: Poetry by Kim Un and others ? Cordite: “Was” (poem) Writing ? The Great White Canceling ? Fictional Notes toward an Essay in Translation ? How to Write Queer Korean Lit: A Manual ? The Emerging Literary Translator Valley of Death ? From the Translator: A Lunar Sorority ? On writing: 1. On silence 2. On exile 3. On cunning ? 24 March 2020 Interviews ? Shondaland ? Prism magazine ? KBS World Radio Korea24 (audio) ? National Centre for Writing Podcast (with Jeremy Tiang) ? Books & Bao: Meet the Translator ? Arts Council Korea, Music of the Sentences (Korean): Part 1, Part 2 ? EBS Morning Date: Part 1, Part 2 ? Korean Literature Now interview (with Sang Young Park) ? Matthew Sciarappa’s YouTube channel Grants and Awards ? PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant (2020) ? PEN Translates award (2017) ? Daesan Foundation literary translation grant (2017) ? GKL Korean Literature Translation Award (2018) ? Multiple grants from the Literary Translation Institute of Korea ? Multiple grants from the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea ? Multiple grants from Arts Council Korea ? Translator-in-residence at the National Centre for Writing, UK ? Translator-in-residence at Queen’s College Translation Exchange, University of Oxford Photo credit: Anita Staff, Daniel Hahn #Anton Hur #Translator #Award #Grant