Anton Hur

@antonhur

Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him. 🔗: antonhur.com

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Anton Hur@antonhur· 22d

Preorders open for THAT SUMMER’S END by Lee Seong-bok! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776178...

Anton Hur@antonhur· 25d

The funniest moment at West Cork Litfest in Ireland was when I told Andrew Miller that as of two weeks ago, I was his Korean translator for The Land in Winter. “You’ve met my Korean translator?” “No, I *am* your Korean translator.” We took a selfie for his Korean publisher lol

Anton and Andrew wearing oddly coordinated blue button-down shirts at the West Cork Litfest green room

Anton Hur@antonhur· 29d

Beautiful Bantry, Ireland, and the souvenir I picked up that wouldn’t fit in my bag so I carried through the streets like a caption for my face

Old Bantry House and its green gardens and deep blue cloudless sky

Anton holding a license plate that says “feckin eejit” and the Irish flag

Anton Hur@antonhur· Jul 12

“Too much happiness hurts your eyes. We can sustain grief and sadness for considerably longer than joy, oddly enough.”

Cover of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Twelve Thousand Days

Anton Hur@antonhur· Jul 5

Celebrating 4th of July at the European Union Parliament because American independence is looking like a bad idea, to use what white people say about brown people’s independence

Hemicycle plenary chamber of the EU parliament

Standing with the EU flags and EU flag at the chamber

Anton Hur@antonhur· Jun 30

Landed in Germany. Geeking out over my first ICE train ride! It’s like riding the Orient Express. It’s like millennial retro futurism

Anton post-12 hour flight sitting and smiling in ICE train

Anton Hur@antonhur· Jun 17

Amazing things are happening at Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

Anton Hur@antonhur· Jun 14

Damion Searls and me signing books, fun!

Anton Hur@antonhur· Jun 13

My view from an adirondack —Bread Loaf, Vermont

Vermont blue sky green hill and field and white house, bucolic vibe

Anton sitting on adirondack holding up copy of Analog Days by Damion Searls

Anton Hur@antonhur· Jun 13

In Noo Yawk I do not walk, I schlep

Anton wearing a guest sticker for HarperCollins HQ

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 28

Fun fact! I blurbed this book:

"A beguiling tale of Otherness that is not only a translation from another language but another planet, a story told so well that every familiar word feels as new as an alien horizon.”
- Anton Hur, author of Toward Eternity

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 24

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 24

I had lunch at my parents’ house and was using chopsticks just fine when my dad handed me a fork that I used as a child in Sweden 😂😂😂 I am in my mid-forties and am so motor-coordinated I have a black belt in kendo, but my parents will always see me as a baby 🥹 I did use it for the cake later tbf

Anton holding up child’s fork that doesn’t even fit in his hand

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 23

The Heart of the Nhaga (The Bird That Drinks Tears Book 1) written by Lee Young-do and translated by me is out in June! Here’s my unboxing video~*

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 22

None of these rebuttals from Olga Tokarczuk address the fact that Al is destroying our environment, making people less critical and more compliant, and ALSO THE FACT THAT IT'S PLAGIARIZING WRITERS lithub.com/olga-tokarcz...

Olga Tokarczuk says:

I state briefly and firmly:
1. I make use of artificial intelligence on the same
principles as most people in the world - I treat it as a tool that
allows faster documenting and checking of facts. Whenever I use this tool I additionally verify the information. Just as I have done for several decades by reading books and by exploring libraries and archives.
2. None of my texts, including the novel that will appear in Polish this fall, has been written with the help of artificial intelligence - except for using it as a tool for faster preliminary research.
3. I am sometimes inspired by dreams, but before this sentence too is cornered and torn to
pieces by the experts, I hasten to report that they are my own dreams.
Olga Tokarczuk, May 19, 2006

Anton rebuts:

none of these rebuttals address the fact that Al is destroying our environment, making people less critical and more compliant, and ALSO THE FACT THAT IT'S
PLAGIARIZING
WRITERS

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 20

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

"Allowing a transgender adolescent with gender dysphoria to experience their endogenous puberty when puberty blockers are medically indicated according to the Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline is highly likely to result in irreversible physical changes that create enormous short- and long-term distress and gender dysphoria," Folsom wrote. "Thus, there was substantial evidence that S.B. 63 not only fails to protect minors, but also endangers them, by prohibiting the use of GnRH agonists when medically indicated."

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 17

“undated” www.bbc.com/news/article...

A Reddit forum dedicated to discussions about the LIRR has been undated with comments and questions from commuters anxious about how they will get to work or school.

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 17

I have that bookmark in my library too! I framed mine 😆

Octavia Butler bookmark framed in Anton’s library. A quote from Butler printed on it that says, All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change.

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 13

Cornelius Reiber's translation of my novel TOWARD ETERNITY was nominated for a 2026 Kurd Laßwitz Preis in the category of "Best Translated Non-German SF Work Debut." Go us! www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/2026/KLP_202...

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 10

On reading ironically and pronouncing “Coetzee” properly.

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 5

Mine is Possession (2002) starring Gwyneth Paltrow. I love the book so much that the movie would only be a disappointment, but I caught it again on cable years later and really liked it. Many of the best lines are the ones that are not in the book.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart stand before a tombstone from the movie Possession

Anton Hur@antonhur· May 1

You know, when an account named "Crackhead Barney & Friends" single-handedly takes down a whole Kennedy-dynastic frontrunner's campaign with one Instagram Reel, I see a hopeful glimmer of the country America believes itself to be www.instagram.com/reel/DXr3ILS...

Jack Schlossberg refusing to say "free Palestine" on camera

Anton Hur@antonhur· Apr 29

Happy pub day to Kim Choyeop’s IF WE CANNOT GO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT, Korea’s first international hard SF bestseller, now finally available in English! US: www.simonandschuster.com/books/If-We-... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Anton Hur@antonhur· Apr 21

Well that sounds familiar

In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body's cells are entirely replaced with nanites-robot or android cells which not only cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal.
Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an Al how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband. When Yonghun-himself a recipient of nanotherapy-mysteriously vanishes into thin air and then just as suddenly reappears, the event raises disturbing questions. What happened to Yonghun, and though he's returned, is he really himself anymore?

Anton Hur@antonhur· Apr 20

I don’t get writer’s block. Not since reading a magical book that gave me this advice:

I2.
To write poetry is to dig a waterway for words. Poetry allows words to flow through you. The poet must not force the flow of words but rather watch and wait.
I3.
To write poetry is to create a way for words to pass. The poet must not drag words through you but rather watch them flow through you.
I4.
Literature isn't made by us. Literature is made by language.
There is no path that language cannot enter. Language can't even be talked about without language.

19.
You must pluck the poem from yourself as quickly as possible. If you're thinking about the poem, it's already too late. Make sure you expel the words faster than you can think about them. Don't let your brain interfere. The stronger the poem's rhythm, the weaker its "meaning." A good sign that your brain is going faster than your body.
20.
The brain is deliberate and social, but the hand is closer to desire and the unconscious. A poem is like a finger that breaks out of your head. Or the slit in a Chinese qipao dress: opens when you walk, closes when you stop.
21.
Words dragged by force from the brain are stiff and devoid of feeling. Instead, your words should be a beat ahead of your brain. Like a child rolling a steel hoop, the words will come alive only if they roll on ahead of the brain.

22.
You've seen soccer players pass the ball to each other. If they're blocked, they pass, and receive the ball again once they're past the block. Just like this, you've got to let go of the language before thinking about what to do next. If you keep the ball in your possession, the reader will only steal it from you.
23.
The theme comes after the words. Don't write on a theme, write with words. It's difficult to build on meaning. Meaning arrives only after sound does.

25.
Poems written with intent is violence against poetry. You need to rescue language from the brain and make it dance in your body instead. Then both you and language will be happy.

Anton Hur@antonhur· Apr 18

IF WE CANNOT GO AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT by Kim Choyeop, an international SF bestseller, is finally out in my English translation on April 26! Reprints have already been issued by popular demand! Here is what it’s about! US: www.simonandschuster.com/books/If-We-... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Anton Hur@antonhur· Apr 17

How to Get a Great Idea for a Novel feat. my novel TOWARD ETERNITY, published by HarperCollins everywhere ✨🪐 US: www.harpercollins.com/products/tow... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/towa...

Anton Hur@antonhur· Apr 14

HOLY FCUK I HAVE THREE NOMINATIONS

Translated Novel
• On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) (SF]
• The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H]
• The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H]
• Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF]
• The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr.
Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H]
• Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF]
• Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr.
Anton Hur (Tor) [F]

Anton Hur@antonhur· Apr 13

Screenshot of Bluesky TL showing:

Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.... • 12m crowdsourcing my beowulf translation word by word: "So what would you guys put for pēod-cyninga?"
aq
John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsk... • 47m
Stop trying to make hwæt happen.

Anton Hur@antonhur· Apr 12

“Most people expect a young person’s first book to be about their own life.” I’m confused, the novel is literally based on his family history?? That IS a book about your own life