Anton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the winner of a PEN Translates award, a Daesan Foundation grant, and multiple LTI Korea grants. His translations include Shin Kyung-sook's The Court Dancer (Pegasus Books) and Kang Kyeong-ae's The Underground Village (Honford Star), as well as stories in Words Without Borders, Asymptote Journal, Slice Magazine, Anomaly and others. He teaches at Ewha University's Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation.
