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Translator, novelist, 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.com · Jul 3

My novel TOWARD ETERNITY is now available in paperback, *run* to your local bookstore to get a copy now!!! www.harpercollins.com/products/tow...

Front cover of Toward Eternity paperback

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 30m

The United States is in material breach of over five hundred - yes, 500 - legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations.

And lest you say that's because of Trump, we were in breach of at least 350 under both of the last two Democratic administrations.

So yes, we are an illegal occupation.

Conquering and colonization is the way people acquired land at that time in history. It was uncivilized and involved violence and yet that's how land was acquired.

You fought over it and, if you won, it became yours. I acknowledge that's how America came to be. I also acknowledge colonization was a bad thing for indigenous populations.

But I think you're reaching pretty far to try to claim America is an ongoing illegal occupation in present day.

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 1d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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김성일 Sung-il Kim @sung-il-kim.com · 10h

Author’s copies arrived!

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 10h

"'Empire bad, rebellion good' is bog-standard, as are moral absolutes. Kim doesn’t let that easy dichotomy be the end of it. Yes, the Empire is oppressive. So are some of the kingdoms it conquers."

*gasp* This is an incredible review, thank you @christinaladd.bsky.social!!!

No Page Unturned Podcast @nopageunturned.bsky.social · 11h

Blood for the Undying Throne Review: Empire of Death and Death of Empire by @christinaladd.bsky.social

@torbooks.bsky.social @antonhur.com @sung-il-kim.com

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 22h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11h

Bora Chung thinks so too!

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Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve read “Tale of a Wall”… his certainty that he would be in prison forever - I can’t imagine how this must feel…

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 12h

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons

Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons

Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 18h

IT IS AN HONOR TO BE ASKED TO COME TO BRAZIL 🇧🇷💜

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Bárbara ⁷ (slow) @bagbs.bsky.social · 1d

COME TO BRAZIL, ANTON!

Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

See you in the UK you guys!

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Cheltenham / Sheffield / Edinburgh /Glasgow / Manchester / London

October 14, 2025
2025 UK Tour

Anton Hur

I'm coming to the UK courtesy of Tilted Axis Press and the Literary Translation Institute of Korea to promote Park Seolyeon's Capitalists Must Starve!

19/10 - VOICEBOX: PARK SEOLYEON:
CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE, Sunday 19
October, 2.15pm, free, Cheltenham
20/10 - The Midnight Timetable: Bora Chung in Conversation with Anton Hur, Monday 20
October, 7pm, Sheffield
21/10 - Capitalists Must Starve Tour: Launch Party at Round Table Books, Tuesday October 21, 6:30pm, free, London
22/10 - Capitalists Must Starve: Park Seolyeon in Conversation with Anton Hur at Juno
Bookshop, Wednesday 22nd October, 6:30pm,

23/10 - In conversation with Irenosen Okojie at the Southbank Centre, Thursday 23 October, 7.30pm, London
24/10 - Park Seolyeon with Anton Hur for Capitalists Must Starve at Topping & Company
Booksellers, Friday 24th October, 7pm,
Edinburgh
25/10 - Capitalists Must Starve with Park Seolyeon & Anton Hur at Mount Florida Books, Saturday 25th October, 7pm, Glasgow
26/10 - In Other Words: Capitalists Must Starve: a conversation with Park Seolyeon and Anton Hur at Tills Bookshop, Sunday 26 October, 7 pm, Edinburgh

27/10 - Park Seolyeon with Anton Hur
'Capitalists Must Starve' at House of Books & Friends, Monday 27 October, 6pm, Manchester
28 Oct - Pitching Your Translation: A Writing Workshop for Wasafiri X Queen Mary
University, Tuesday 28 October, 6pm, London
29 Oct - Prizing Korean Literature: A Public Lecture for Wasafiri X Queen Mary University, Wednesday 29 October, 7pm, London
30 Oct - The 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Ceremony, Thursday 30 October, 7pm, London

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

The cover of Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

Wow even THIS supreme court was like, nope

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

In 2022 it was ruled that the conspiracy theorist would have to pay $1.4bn to families of the victims of Sandy Hook.

Supreme Court declines Alex Jones challenge to defamation judgement

In 2022 it was ruled that the conspiracy theorist would have to pay $1.4bn to families of the victims of Sandy Hook.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

See you in the UK you guys!

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Cheltenham / Sheffield / Edinburgh /Glasgow / Manchester / London

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 1d

The market alone cannot sustain good literature, and no literature will survive the collapse of the biosphere, something thinkable within generations. Not many art discussions, awards, takes will help us escape the machine, but more of them should stick in the gears, and fewer should grease them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · Jul 23

I was an English major. I read regularly. Only two authors have ever made me laugh out loud: Kurt Vonnegut and Tomihiko Morimi.

If you have never read Morimi and want to laugh your butt off, I cannot recommend his work highly enough.

The cover for Tomihiko Morimi's The Tatami Galaxy, which features a collage of characters and elements from the story.

The cover for Tomihiko Morimi's The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, which features a collage of characters and elements from the story.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

When I came out to him he was completely accepting and said being gay was my most natural state and I should find happiness in that. Also he is very fond of my husband

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

Yay! I'm safe

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 1d

Some thoughts on the freeing of Israeli hostages and on survivors of genocide in Gaza. 2/2 End

* If the ceasefire, indeed, holds, there are now several hundred thousand survivors of genocide in Gaza. Since it's estimated that as much as 80-90% of structures are either fully destroyed or damaged, there is little for survivors to return to (the same aid worker interviewed on NPR today talked about how people are in need of cleaning supplies as they try to clean up whatever parts of their homes may be standing, for those who find anything still standing). This had gone on for this long because of Netanyahu's attempt to stay in power, his and his coalition's desire to grind Gaza to dust, and because the majority of the Israeli public — even of those protesting against the war — have been concerned for the hostages while being uninterested in (or, more often, hostile) to the suffering of Palestinians. I fear that with all hostages now returned, there will be massive crackdown on the minority of the Israeli public that will continue to call for justice for genocide survivors because the war will now be deemed "over" and protesters will spoil the jubilant mood.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

Vespuccia

And you would all be Vespuccians

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muneo @literaryfish.bsky.social · 2d

"2023년 10월7일 개전 이후 전쟁 733일째를 맞은 2025년 10월8일까지 이스라엘군 공격으로 가자지구 주민 6만7183명이 숨지고 16만9841명이 다쳤다."

"이스라엘군이 가자에서 물러간 뒤에도, 지난 2년여 이스라엘이 집단살해 범죄를 저질렀다는 사실은 변함이 없다. 단죄 없이는 평화도 없다."

"집단살해 방지와 처벌은 협약 체결국 모두의 의무다. 국제사법재판소의 명시적 판결이 없더라도 각 체결국은 집단살해죄가 발생했거나 발생할 가능성이 있는지 평가하고, 그 같은 행위를 예방·처벌하기 위한 의무를 다해야 한다."

한겨레 @hanibsky.bsky.social · 2d

“이제야 그나마 숨 좀 쉴 수 있겠다 싶을 때, 어김없이 다른 가족의 죽음이 시커먼 어둠처럼 닥쳐온다. 두려움은 더 이상 잠깐 스쳐 지나가는 감정이 아니게 됐다. 두려움은 이제 지속적으로 우리 곁에 머물며, 우리 삶의 모든 측면에 끼어들고 간섭한다. 상실은 우리 존재의 일부가 됐고, 슬픔은 일상이 됐다.”

7320가구, 모두 죽거나 1명만 살아남아… ‘절멸’의 가자지구

유엔 조사위 “집단살해 국제 규정 정의 다섯 중 넷에 해당”… 이스라엘-하마스 ‘트럼프 계획’ 1단계 합의 불구, 단죄 없인 평화도 없어

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

When the Human Instrumentality Project was first revealed, I was like… who would WANT that to happen? And then I met tech people

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Luckily I can read Korean literature lol

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

That IS fun!!!

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Matthew @fineplan.bsky.social · 2d

How fun! Stopped in a Madrid bookstore where I ended up talking with a bookseller about the wonderful @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social and @antonhur.com books they had on display and she when she found out I am a librarian she asked for recent favorites to stock. 😍 #booksky

Kim Suhyun’s I Decided to Live as Me translated into English by Anton Hur

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

I think this is actually a feature and prevents the airpods from absorbing the impact and cracking instead? My Sony earpods do the same thing