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]
Author: Anton Hur
Selected publications by Anton Hur
- Toward Eternity, HarperVia 2024
Selected translations by Anton Hur
- Kim Cho-yeop: Greenhouse at the End of the World, Saga Press 2028
- Kim Cho-yeop: If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light, Saga Press 2026
- Lee Young-do: The Bird that Drinks Tears, Harper Voyager 2025
- Bora Chung: The Midnight Timetable, Scribe 2025
- Lee Soo-hyun: Alien Gods, Honford Star 2025
- Bora Chung: Red Sword, Honford Star 2025
- Kim Soo-hyun: I Decided to Live as Me, Penguin 2024
- Kim Sung-il: Blood of the Old Kings, Tor 2024
- Bora Chung: Grocery List, Hanuman Editions 2024
- Park Seolyeon: A Magical Girl Retires, HarperVia 2024
- Baek Sehee: I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki, Bloomsbury 2024
- Bora Chung: Your Utopia, Hachette USA, Honford Star 2024
- Lee Seong-bok: Indeterminate Inflorescence, Sublunary 2023
- Sang Young Park: Knockoff Viagra & Jeje, Strangers Press 2023
- Serang Chung: Take My Voice, Strangers Press 2023
- Djuna: Counterweight, Pantheon, Penguin 2023
- BTS, Kang Myeong-seok: Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS, Flatiron Books 2023
- Shin Kyung-sook: I Went to See My Father, Astra House 2023
- Park Kyung-ni: The Age of Doubt, Honford Star 2022
- Baek Sehee: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, Bloomsbury 2022
- Shin Kyung-sook: Violets, Feminist Press, Weidenfeld + Nicolson 2022
- Sang Young Park: Love in the Big City, Tilted Axis 2021
- Hwang Sok-yong: The Prisoner, Verso 2021
- Bora Chung: Cursed Bunny, Honford Star 2021
- Kang Kyong-ae: The Underground Village, Honford Star 2018
- Shin Kyung-sook: The Court Dancer, Pegasus 2018
A look back at the books we encountered in 2023
When it comes to fiction, 2023 was a year that defied my expectations. Those novels that I hoped or expected to enjoy turned out to be disappointments; those that I thought might be heavy going turned out to be enjoyable. It was a reminder to try better to abide by the maxim of approaching a … [Read More]
Strangers Press releases a new series of eight short story translations
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]
Sang Young Park, Anton Hur and Simon Lam on Love in the Big City
KCCUK is pleased to announce an in-person talk about the novel Love in the Big City with the author San Young Park and the translator Anton Hur. A fresh and unique debut novel by the bestselling young star of Korean queer fiction, Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that … [Read More]
Love in the Big City – Sang Young Park and Anton Hur in conversation
Libreria is thrilled to welcome a star of Korean fiction, Sang Young Park, and brilliant translator, Anton Hur, as they discuss Love in the Big City – a fresh and unique debut novel, longlisted for the 2022 Internatioal Booker Prize. Love in the Big City is about queers and Catholicism, women, abortion, STDs, and the … [Read More]
A look back at our 2022 reading diary
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]
Congratulations to Bora Chung, Anton Hur and Honford Star
Congratulations to author Bora Chung, translator Anton Hur and publisher Honford Star for Cursed Bunny’s inclusion in the International Booker Prize shortlist. Anton Hur had the distinction of having two of his translations longlisted, the other one being Sang Young Park’s Love in the Big City. It was also nice to see one title from … [Read More]
Non-fiction titles expected in 2022: LKL’s picks
In previous years this post has been, to a greater or lesser extent, a list of every non-fiction title I could find that was going to be hitting the bookshops in the coming year. As the LKL Korea Book Database has grown in size, including its stock of future publications, there are now far too … [Read More]
Upcoming literature and fiction titles for 2022
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
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
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]
Love in the Big City: Sang Young Park in conversation with Anton Hur
November’s literature discussion again features a book which is very hot off the press: Love in the Big City Wednesday 24th November 12:00noon-1:30pm via Zoom The author Sang Young Park and the moderator Anton Hur will join us for a live virtual talk about the novel Love in the Big City. Following the talk, Sang … [Read More]
Eighteen non-fiction titles we’re hoping to enjoy this year [updated]
Here are some of the books we’re looking forward to in 2021. For the first time in one of these posts we’re flagging the indicative cost of the titles listed here. For me, I have a psychological barrier at around £30: a book has to be offering something pretty special for me to be prepared … [Read More]
Literature and poetry in translation titles for 2021: more than a dozen to look forward to!
This is now LKL’s fifth annual post that looks at the literature and fiction titles we’re looking forward to over the coming twelve months. Since last year we’ve made things easier for ourselves by investing some time building a book database that aims to catalogue all physical publications of Korean literature in translation, as well … [Read More]
Interview with Bora Chung in Korea Times
There’s a nice interview with writer Bora Chung in yesterday’s Korea Times. Coming later this year from Honford Star is her short story collection Cursed Bunny, translated by Anton Hur. According to the article, Many of her recent works can be defined as a gripping amalgamation of absurdist, unrealistic stories that draw on science fiction, … [Read More]
April literature night: The Court Dancer, by Shin Kyung-sook
The Korean Literature Night is a monthly discussion group that explores various themes and topics relating to that month’s chosen book. Shin Kyung-sook: The Court Dancer Wedneday 24 April 2019, 19.00-21.00 @KCCUK Entrance Free – Booking Essential Apply to [email protected] or call 020 7004 2600 with your name and contact details by Sunday 7th April. … [Read More]