Translator, author. TOWARD ETERNITY (@HarperViaBooks, 2024). Rep: @thesafae @rcwlitagency. He/they

Joined June 2010
Virtual book club tour for the TOWARD ETERNITY paperback! If you are a book club based anywhere in the world reading TE in paperback, I will make an appearance or record a video for you answering your questions ๐Ÿชโœจ Contact form link and details in thread:
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One of Mahmoud Darwish's many great poems. "The Penultimate Speech of the Native American before the White Man" (Written in 1992, the quincentenary of 1492). youtube.com/watch?v=NwkLclpwโ€ฆ "There are dead who sleep in rooms you will build There are dead who visit their past in the place you demolish There are dead who cross over bridges you will build There are dead who light the night of butterflies . . . So leave, O guests of this place, Empty seats for the hosts. . . to read The conditions for peace with the dead!" #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Anne Carson's experimentation and permission to render grief as fantastical, which is how I experienced it, within the genre of non-fiction was *essential* to my book SPAWNING SEASON. SPAWNING SEASON was just shortlisted for the National Book Award. nationalbook.org/books/spawnโ€ฆ
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๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๊ป˜์„œ ์‚ฌ๊ณผํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ถŒ๋ ฅํ˜• ์„ฑํญ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ž๋ฅผ ์ด๋Ÿฐ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ํŠธ์œ— ๋‚ด์šฉ์ธ๋ฐ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์•„์‰ฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—„์—ฐํžˆ 2์ฐจ๊ฐ€ํ•ด๋กœ ๊ณ ํ†ต๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ”ผํ•ด์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•ด์˜จ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ •์ฑ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์˜๊ตฌ์‹ฌ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ณ  ๋ฐ•์›์ˆœ ์‹œ์žฅ๋‹˜์ด ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด ๋งจ์ด์…จ๊ณ  ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ณผ์˜ ์†Œํ†ต์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉฐ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์‹œ๋˜ ๋ถ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ต๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ธ SNS์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ์ผ๊นจ์›Œ ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์–ด๋А๋‚  ์„œ์šธ์‹œ ๊ณต๊ด€์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ์„ ๋•Œ ๋ฐ•์‹œ์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ SNS๋Œ“๊ธ€์„ ์ฝ์„์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•„์‰ฌ์›Œํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํญ์–ธ ์š•์„ค๋กœ ๋„๋ฐฐ๋˜์–ด ๋„์ €ํžˆ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐจ๋‹จ์„ ์™œ ์•ˆํ•˜์‹œ๋ƒ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ์†Œํ†ต์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด์„œ ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ƒ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•…ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์–‘ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํญ์–ธ ์š•์„ค ์ €๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋น„๋ฐฉ์„ ๋ฐฉ์น˜ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์ •์ƒ ๊ณ„์ •๋“ค๋„ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ๊บผ๋ ค ๋Œ“๊ธ€์ฐฝ์ด ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ์žฅ์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ๋งŒ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์†Œํ†ต์˜ ์žฅ์— ํญ์–ธ ์š•์„ค ๋น„์•„๋ƒฅ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋ฌผ์„ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ์†Œํ†ต์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์†Œํ†ต๋ฐฉํ•ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์˜ค๋ฌผ์„ ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์†Œํ†ต์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ํญ์–ธ ์š•์„ค ๋น„์•„๋ƒฅ ํ—ˆ์œ„์‚ฌ์‹ค ์œ ํฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ„์ • ๋ณด๋Š”๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‹ค ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•  ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‹ฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์‹ ๊ณ ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค" ๋ฐ•์‹œ์žฅ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋“œ๋ ธ๋˜ ๋ง์”€์ธ๋ฐ ๊ทธ ์ดํ›„ ๊ณ  ๋ฐ•์‹œ์žฅ๋‹˜๋„ ์•…์„ฑ ๊ณ„์ •๋“ค์„ ์ฐจ๋‹จ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์••๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋ฌผ์„ ๋ผ์–น์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณต๋ก ์˜ ์žฅ์„ ์–ด์ง€๋Ÿฝํžˆ๋Š” ๊ณ„์ •์€ ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•ด์•ผ ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ๊ณต๋ก ์˜ ์žฅ์ด ์œ ์ง€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚จ์˜ ์ง‘ ๋งˆ๋‹น์— ๋“ค์–ด์™€ ํญ์–ธ ์š•์„คํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ขฐ๋ฐฐ๋Š” ๋ฌธ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹น์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๋‚ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋น„ํŒ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ์•„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋“  ์ขŒ์•„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋“  ํ’ˆ๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ "์ขŒ์•„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ"๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์€ ์ผ๋ฒ ์—์„œ ์“ฐ๋˜ ๋ง์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๊ฐœํ˜์ง„์˜์—์„œ ๋ฌธ์žฌ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ์‹œ์ ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์“ฐ๋˜ ๋ง์ด๊ณ , ์šฐ์•„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์„ ์žฅ๋‚œ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋น„ํŠผ ๋ง์žฅ๋‚œ(์–ธ์–ด์œ ํฌ)์˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—„ํ˜นํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ”์œ ์„ธ์ƒ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋”์”ฉ์€ ๋ง‘์€ ํ•˜๋Š˜๋„ ์ณ๋‹ค๋ณด๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ณ€๋„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๋Š” ์—ฌ์œ ๋„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฉด์„œ, ํ•ดํ•™๊ณผ ์œ ๋จธ ์žฅ๋‚œ๋„ ์ฆ๊ฒจ ๋ณด์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—„์ค‘ ์ง„์ง€ ๊ถŒ์œ„๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋•๋ชฉ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋‹คํ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ž‰์ง„์ง€๋„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ•ฉ์‹œ๋‹ค. ํฐ ์ˆจ ๋“ค์ด์‰ฌ๋ฉฐ ์‚ฐ๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ๊ฐ€์„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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Man, I *wish* I went to a school that assigned Autobiography of Red. The person who recommended that book to me was AS Byatt in this email from 2014, a true working artist whose reaction to being banished from academia was to think, โ€˜Oh good, now I can write.โ€™
When I was Anneโ€™s student & when I visited her in Iceland after, every single person I told & geeked out about it to (rare for me) was not in academia but a working artist & knew who she was. Painters. Musicians. Actors. Etc. Do something you enjoy today. Getting mad that a genius won a Nobel is like getting mad it snows in December. Thatโ€™s life.
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ํ—.... ํ† ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์˜์–ด ๋ฒˆ์—ญ์ž‘์—…์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ ????? ๋Œ€์• ์• ์• ์• ์• ๋ฐ•!!! ๋‚˜์˜ ์ธ์ƒ์†Œ์„ค์ธ ํ† ์ง€๊ฐ€???? ์ œ๋ฐœ ์˜์–ดํŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค ์ฝ๊ฒŒ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‘์†๋ชจ์•„ ๋นˆ๋‹ค..... ๋”๊ตฐ๋‹ค๋‚˜ ๋ฏฟ์„๋งŒํ•œ Anton Hur.....
"In August, the Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a cultural and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of 'Land'." en.sedaily.com/culture/2026/โ€ฆ Landing this project took YEARS in the making, and it began right here on Twitter.
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The main reason why most people don't succeed at anything is because they're not prepared to be bad at something for a long time.
honestly this rewired my fucking brain
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Last night at Gyeongbokgung palace, for the Royal Hanbok Banquet ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Only 400 tickets for foreigners, so I know how lucky I was to have been able to go to this beautiful event. It felt like walking through a historical k-drama, absolute dream โค๏ธ
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ๆ—ฅๆœฌ่ชž็‰ˆใฎๅฎŒ่จณใซ็ถšใ„ใฆใ€ๆœดๆ™ฏๅˆฉใ€ŽๅœŸๅœฐใ€๏ผˆๅ…จ20ๅทป๏ผ‰ใฎ่‹ฑ่ชž็‰ˆๅฎŒ่จณใƒ—ใƒญใ‚ธใ‚งใ‚ฏใƒˆใŒๅง‹ใพใ‚‹ใ‚ˆใ†ใงใ™๏ผ ็ฟป่จณใฏใ€ใƒ‘ใ‚ฏใƒปใ‚ตใƒณใƒจใƒณใ€Žๅคง้ƒฝไผšใฎๆ„›ใ—ๆ–นใ€ใ‚„ใƒใƒงใƒณใƒปใƒœใƒฉใ€Žๅ‘ชใ„ใฎใ‚ฆใ‚ตใ‚ฎใ€ใชใฉใฎ่‹ฑ่จณใ‚’ๆ‰‹ใŒใ‘ใ€้Ÿ“ๅ›ฝๆ–‡ๅญฆใ‚’่‹ฑ่ชžๅœใซๅบƒใ‚ใŸใ‚ขใƒณใƒˆใƒณใƒปใƒ›ใ•ใ‚“!!
"In August, the Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a cultural and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of 'Land'." en.sedaily.com/culture/2026/โ€ฆ Landing this project took YEARS in the making, and it began right here on Twitter.
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"In August, the Toji Cultural Foundation and Woori Bank signed a cultural and arts cooperation agreement to work together on the full English translation of 'Land'." en.sedaily.com/culture/2026/โ€ฆ Landing this project took YEARS in the making, and it began right here on Twitter.
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To demonstrate their commitment to the rights holders and have a kind of "proof of concept" of what Park Kyong-ni's work would look like in English translation, they commissioned Age of Doubt, a gorgeous collection of Park's stories. honfordstar.com/products/theโ€ฆ
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But by then the pandemic had happened and we ran into funding issues, which had scuttled previous attempts at translating Toji/Land, and not just in English. We revived the project this yearโ€”and the Toji Foundation found a sponsor! So, it's happening. And it all started here.
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In "That Summerโ€™s End," celebrated poet Lee Seong-bok probes the elemental forms of our world to explore youth, love, fear, & impermanence. Lee & translator @AntonHur join @gregorspamsa to discuss this masterwork of 106 self-reflective poems. ๐Ÿ“† 10.20 @ 6:30PM ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Links below ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Anton Hur retweeted
This amazing book series was written by an author who is a table top RPG rulebook publisher and the final book of the trilogy comes out this November. He literally writes TTRPG gameplay! us.macmillan.com/books/97812โ€ฆ
all writers do is read novels. they donโ€™t play video games or table top rpgs. thatโ€™s why novels all have great prose and terrible gameplay mechanics
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Aligning with the Empire will have consequences that reverberate through the ages... We're excited to share an excerpt from Blood for the Undying Throne by Sung-il Kim, sequel to the epic (and necromantic) Blood of the Old Kings! reactormag.com/excerpts-blooโ€ฆ
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Blood of the Old Kings Beautiful, beautiful book. Great world building, amazing storytelling.. smooth, neat prose! Sung Il Kim is goated just for this book alone. Brilliant author. Anton Hur deserves his medals for a beautiful translation as well 9/10. Up next; "Acts of Caine"
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