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Books by Anton Hur
Anton Hur’s translation of Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, and was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. As a novelist in his own right, Hur is the author of Toward Eternity (HarperVia) and No One Told Me Not To (Across Books). He was born in Stockholm and currently lives in Seoul. Hur was a judge for the International Booker Prize in 2025.
“What’s extraordinary about Bora Chung’s stories is that, on the surface, they are horror stories that brush the boundaries of science fiction—they all have fantastical elements—but they are very much rooted in human emotion, in fear and need and love and want. So they speak as directly to the human experience as anything else, in the same way as do David Cronenberg’s stories, or Iain M Banks. What’s amazing about them is not simply the extraordinary imagination that gives rise to them as works of fantasy, but the humanity in which they are grounded, and which makes them stick in your mind long after you read them. The experience of reading them is profoundly and viscerally affecting and moving.” Read more...
The Best of World Literature: The 2022 International Booker Prize Shortlist
Frank Wynne, Translator
Interviews with Anton Hur
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On the Calculation of Volume: Book I
by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland -
2
Small Boat
by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson -
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird: A Novel
by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda -
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Perfection
by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes -
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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi -
6
A Leopard-Skin Hat
by Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson
The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize, recommended by Anton Hur
The Best Fiction Books: The 2025 International Booker Prize, recommended by Anton Hur
Every year, judges for the International Booker Prize search for the best works of fiction translated into English over the previous twelve months. We asked Anton Hur, the novelist, translator and 2025 judge, to talk us through the six-book shortlist—including five novels and this year’s winner, the first short story collection ever to triumph.
Interviews where books by Anton Hur were recommended
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Tomb of Sand
by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell -
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Cursed Bunny
by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur -
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A New Name: Septology VI-VII
by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls -
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Heaven
by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd -
5
The Books of Jacob: A Novel
by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft -
6
Elena Knows
by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
The Best of World Literature: The 2022 International Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Frank Wynne
The Best of World Literature: The 2022 International Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Frank Wynne
The International Booker Prize celebrates the best fiction in translation published over the previous year. Frank Wynne, acclaimed translator and chair of the 2022 judging panel, tells Five Books about the six novels that made the shortlist, and reminds readers that world literature need not be tough, consumed only in the interests of self-improvement—but is often joyful, surprising and full of feeling.
