Anton Hur
Anton Hur is a translator and author working in Seoul. He is the author of Toward Eternity (HarperVia) and No One Told Me Not To (Across Books). He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and raised in British Hong Kong, Ethiopia, and Thailand, but mostly in Korea.
Articles by Anton Hur
On 'Crying Clowns' and 'Scandalous Deviants': An Interview with Sang Young Park and Anton Hur
Written by Sang Young Park and translated into English by Anton Hur, Love in the Big City (Tilted Axis Press) was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and has been widely praised for its sharp translation and its tender, humorous examination of Korean queer life. In a society that still oppresses and ignores its queer citizens, and where it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to survive, Young’s story has a particular poignancy. It is a celebration of those who exist on the periphery, and an exploration of the relationships – platonic, familial, and romantic – that change one’s life irrevocably. In this interview with Victoria Caudle, author Sang Young Park and Anton Hur discuss the parts of themselves and their experiences that they brought to their work, the difficulties of being young and queer in Korea, and the limited opportunities for translators to make a sustainable living.
Changing the Future: In Conversation with Kaliane Bradley and Anton Hur
In this exclusive extract from Wasafiri 119: Futurisms, our Associate Editor So Mayer interviews Kaliane Bradley and Anton Hur about their recently published debut novels. They discuss narration and translation, the climate crisis and the erotic, and much more.
We Have Arrived: Anton Hur on Han Kang’s Nobel Win
In this moving and revealing essay, writer and translator Anton Hur brings his trademark wit to reflect on the 'earthquake' moment of Han Kang winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and comment on literary prize cultures.
The Two Wolves Inside Me: Writer vs. Translator by Anton Hur
Both a novelist and translator, Anton Hur – Fiction judge for the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – discusses the varied experiences between writing and translating fiction, and how each role is treated in a book's production process.
Extract: The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, trans. by Anton Hur
Read an extract from 'Why Does the Cat?', a short story from Bora Chung's latest collection, The Midnight Timetable, translated by Anton Hur, where a man is haunted by the ghost of his murder victim.
Wasafiri Wonders: Anton Hur
For this instalment of our Wasafiri Wonders series, we spoke to 2025 International Booker Prize judge and our Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize judge for Fiction this year, Anton Hur, on his writing habits and rituals, the art of translation, and upcoming work.