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Literati Glitterati: On Translation with Anton Hur

Summer host Rachael Bettiens is joined by award winning Korean writer/translator Anton Hur. Anton discusses his decade spanning career, which includes translation work on Bora Chung's The Midnight Timetable and Park Seolyeon's Capitalists Must Starve, as well as the release of his own book Toward Eternity. He explores the balance between translation and creative writing, the 'shower thought' that lead to his novel and his approaches and processes of translation.

More information on Anton Hur and his work can be found here.

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Listen to Literati Glitterati: On Translation with Anton Hur19:5328 January 2026