Anton Hur

He has translated the works of Kyung-Sook Shin, Hwang Sok-yong, and Sang Young Park, whose Love in the Big City was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, and Bora Chung, whose collection of short stories Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the same prize.

[5] His father worked for KOTRA, a state-funded trade and investment promotion organization of the South Korean government, and he was raised in various countries including Hong Kong, Ethiopia, and Thailand before settling in Korea.

He began working as a translator full-time in 2018, beginning with Kyung-Sook Shin's The Court Dancer.

[7] His writing has been published in outlets such as Astra Magazine, Words Without Borders, Lithub, Asymptote, and many others.

[11] Hur is openly queer and has written about sexuality, the history of diverse sexuality in Korean literature beginning with Yi Kwang-su's 1909 short story Is It Love, and misery as an enduring theme in queer Korean literature.