Anton Hur

Anton Hur (

Hur, a Korean citizen, was born in Stockholm on 7 April 1981.^[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. As his family did not initially support him studying literature, he studied law and psychology at Korea University and French at Korea National Open University before pursuing a master's degree in English literature at Seoul National University. He began working as a translator full-time in 2018, beginning with Kyung-Sook Shin's The Court Dancer.^[2] He manages the literary translation group Smoking Tigers.^[6]

In addition to translating Korean literature into English, Hur is also the translator of the forthcoming Korean edition of

• Baek, Sehee (2022), I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, Bloomsbury,
  OCLC 1289231338
• ISBN 9781916277182
• ISBN 978-1-83976-083-9
• ISBN 9781999791261
• Park, Sang Young (2019), Love in the Big City, Grove,
  ISBN 978-0-8021-5878-9
• ISBN 9781643132525
• ISBN 9781558612907
• ISBN 978-1-035-03154-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
  )
• ISBN 978-1-955-19062-6