Manchester in Translation 2024: Keynote with Anton Hur

Anton Hur opens Manchester in Translation 2024 with his keynote speech.
Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity (HarperVia) and No One Told Me Not To (Across Books). He was born in Stockholm and currently resides in Seoul. He won a PEN Translates grant for his translation of The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae and a PEN/Heim grant for Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny, the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature. His translation of Sang Young Park’s Love in the Big City was longlisted for the same prize in the same year. His translation of Violets was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Awards and a finalist for the Firecracker Award. His co-translation of Beyond the Story: 10-Year History of BTS debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. He has taught at the British Centre for Literary Translation, the Ewha University Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, and the Bread Loaf Translators Conference.

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As a reader / consumer, I appreciate that you are consistently an advocate for each book you translate. Whether the conversation is on reading, writing, translating, or marketing, you always have an authentic personal investment in the book at hand. As you said early on, loving books and literature are the essence of being a successful translator. I love that you are each book's biggest fan.