Introduction to a Translation Folio Guest Edited by Jennifer Croft, Jeremy Tiang, and Anton Hur

Anton Hur has translated books by Kyung-Sook Shin, Bora Chung, Sang Young Park, Ocean Vuong, and others. A graduate of the Korea University College of Law and Seoul National University Graduate School, he has worked as a translator and interpreter for more than twenty years. He resides in Seoul.

Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel Amadou, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir, Homesick, and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She has also translated Sylwia Chutnik, Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Federico Falco, Pedro Mairal, Sylvia Molloy, Bronka Nowicka, Romina Paula, Sylwia Siedlecka, Natalka Sniadanko, Lyuba Yakimchuk, and many others. She lives in Tulsa.

Jeremy Tiang has translated more than twenty books from Chinese, including novels by Yan Ge, Yeng Pway Ngon, Chan Ho-Kei, Lo Yi-Chin, Zhang Yueran, Geling Yan and Liu Xinwu. He won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018 for his novel State of Emergency, and also writes and translates plays. Tiang lives in New York City.