Contributor

Anton Hur

Contributor

Anton Hur

South Korea

Anton Hur made his debut on Words Without Borders with his translation of “Genesis” by Jeon Sam-hye. He has been nominated for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the National Critics Circle Awards Barrios Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, and the Firecracker Award for his work in translating Kyung-Sook Shin, Bora Chung, Sang Young Park, Lee Seong-Bok, and others. He is the author of the novel Toward Eternity and resides in Seoul.

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A Song for Sleep

By Bora Chung

A human has attempted to communicate with me by physical means.

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

Something No One Else Has

By Kyung-sook Shin

San feels reassured that Namae’s body is as skinny and pathetic as her own.

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

The Literary Life of K-pop Lyrics

By Sang Young Park

I’d accumulated what is surely the biggest collection of gem-like K-pop lyrics in the world.

Translated by Anton Hur

The Interrogation

By Hwang Sok-Yong

In the 1990s, writer and Korean reunification activist Hwang Sok-yong spent five years in prison for visiting North Korea in violation of South Korea’s National Security Act. In his memoir The…

Translated by Anton Hur & Sora Kim-Russell

The Great White Canceling

By Anton Hur

Translator Anton Hur takes a hard look at race and translation in this essay.

Translating the World Undone: An Interview with Translator Nicholas Glastonbury

By Anton Hur

Last month, literary translator Nicholas Glastonbury, who translates from Turkish and Kurdish, posted a Twitter thread about the failings of the publishing industry when it comes to translated literature.…

Korean Literature Is Stepping Out

By Anton Hur

Now, thanks to our authors, we’re ready to step forth into the sun.

About My Daughter

By Kim Hye-jin

These kids could be just clever, fancy thugs.

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

An Interview with Sang Young Park

By Anton Hur

The title story of Sang Young Park’s debut collection, Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta (Munhakdongne, 2018), is serialized in Words Without Borders in Anton Hur’s translation.…

The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta, Part III

By Sang Young Park

We were five minutes out on our jeep when the sound of an explosion big enough to shake the car resounded from behind us.

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta, Part II

By Sang Young Park

I knew better than anyone else that Oh was not gay, that he was just using these rumors.

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta

By Sang Young Park

I went to Iraq to make a queer film the likes of which the world had never seen.

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

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"Carrière aux Sables de Macherin," Eugène Cuvelier, 1863. Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift and Rogers Fund, 1996. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain.