Join Tilted Axis Press for the London launch of Capitalists Must Starve, a radical feminist novel by award-winning Korean author Park Seolyeon, translated into English by Anton Hur. Set in 1930s Pyongyang, Capitalists Must Starve follows a young factory worker who leads a historic strike, bringing to life the fierce spirit of women and workers … [Read More]
Translator: Anton Hur
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Selected translations
- Kim Cho-yeop: Greenhouse at the End of the World tr Anton Hur, Saga Press 2028
- Shin Kyung-sook: On the Eve of Goodbye tr Anton Hur, Weidenfeld + Nicolson 2027
- Park Seolyeon: A Magical Girl Rehired tr Anton Hur, HarperVia 2026
- Bora Chung: The Pain Chasers tr Anton Hur, Dialogue Books 2026
- Lee Seong-bok: That Summer’s End: Poems tr Anton Hur, Knopf 2026
- Lee Young-do: The Heart of the Nhaga (The Bird that Drinks Tears vol 1) tr Anton Hur, Harper Voyager 2026
- Kim Cho-yeop: If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light tr Anton Hur, MacLehose Press, Simon and Schuster 2026
- Kim Sung-il: Blood for the Undying Throne tr Anton Hur, Tor 2025
- Park Seolyeon: Capitalists Must Starve tr Anton Hur, Tilted Axis 2025
- Bora Chung: Midnight Timetable tr Anton Hur, Scribe 2025
- Lee Soo-hyun: Alien Gods tr Anton Hur, Honford Star 2025
- Bora Chung: Red Sword tr Anton Hur, Honford Star 2025
- Kim Soo-hyun: I Decided to Live as Me tr Anton Hur, Penguin 2024
- Kim Sung-il: Blood of the Old Kings tr Anton Hur, Tor 2024
- Bora Chung: Grocery List tr Anton Hur, Hanuman Editions 2024
- Park Seolyeon: A Magical Girl Retires tr Anton Hur, HarperVia 2024
- Baek Sehee: I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki tr Anton Hur, Bloomsbury 2024
- Bora Chung: Your Utopia tr Anton Hur, Hachette USA, Honford Star 2024
- Lee Seong-bok: Indeterminate Inflorescence tr Anton Hur, Penguin, Sublunary 2023
- Sang Young Park: Knockoff Viagra & Jeje tr Anton Hur, Strangers Press 2023
- Serang Chung: Take My Voice tr Anton Hur, Strangers Press 2023
- Djuna: Counterweight tr Anton Hur, Pantheon, Penguin 2023
- BTS, Kang Myeong-seok: Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS tr Anton Hur, Clare Richards, Slin Jung, Flatiron Books 2023
- Shin Kyung-sook: I Went to See My Father tr Anton Hur, Astra House 2023
- Park Kyung-ni: The Age of Doubt tr Anton Hur, Dasom Yang, Emily Yae Won, Mattho Mandersloot, Paige Aniyah Morris, Slin Jung, Sophie Bowman, You Jeong Kim, Honford Star 2022
- Baek Sehee: I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki tr Anton Hur, Bloomsbury 2022
- Shin Kyung-sook: Violets tr Anton Hur, Feminist Press, Weidenfeld + Nicolson 2022
- Sang Young Park: Love in the Big City tr Anton Hur, Tilted Axis 2021
- Hwang Sok-yong: The Prisoner tr Anton Hur, Sora Kim-Russell, Verso 2021
- Bora Chung: Cursed Bunny tr Anton Hur, Honford Star 2021
- Kang Kyong-ae: The Underground Village tr Anton Hur, Honford Star 2018
- Shin Kyung-sook: The Court Dancer tr Anton Hur, Pegasus 2018
Publications by Anton Hur as author
- Toward Eternity, HarperVia 2024
Translations by Anton Hur available online
Anton Hur: Prizing Korean Literature
Join Wasafiri and Anton Hur to explore the future of Korean literature on a global stage and discuss literary prize cultures and translation. Following his essay for the Wasafiri website, ‘We Have Arrived: Anton Hur on Han Kang’s Nobel Win’ – where he brought his trademark wit to reflect on the ‘earthquake’ moment of Han … [Read More]
Three Korean authors at Wimbledon Bookfest
Join three unmissable new voices, Juhea Kim, Ela Lee and Park Seolyeon, as they discuss their ambitious and incisive novels that will challenge and expand your idea of Korean literature. Ela Lee’s Jaded is a searing exploration of race, power and violence, as well as how hope can light up the darkest moments, City of … [Read More]
Bora Chung: The Midnight Timetable
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
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]
2024 in review part 2 – the books that caught our eye
2024 was a busy year for Korea-related books in English. Over one hundred books from the year made their way into the LKL Korea Book DataBase, and there were many more that didn’t make the cut. As translated Korean literature becomes ever more prominent in our bookstores, 2024 was, of course, the year in which … [Read More]
Glasgow’s Emergence Festival: Bora Chung’s The Head
An ordinary woman. A bodiless head. And a wee bit of K-Pop. The Head is an abject uncanny dark fairy tale. Stage adaptation and performance by Kat Kim. Based on The Head by South Korean writer Bora Chung, which was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. It is included in Chung’s collection of short … [Read More]
Book talk: Anton Hur – Toward Eternity
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]
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]