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Writer
Anton Hur
Anton Hur is the author of the novel Toward Eternity. He has translated over twenty-five works of Korean literature into English, including Love in the Big City (longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize) and Cursed Bunny (shortlisted for the same prize and a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award). He served as judge for the 2025 International Booker Prize. He resides in Seoul.
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Writer
Gina Kim
Gina Kim is an acclaimed filmmaker and UCLA professor whose transnational, genre-defying works foreground female agency. Her filmography includes Never Forever (starring Vera Farmiga and Ha Jung-woo), Final Recipe (starring Michelle Yeoh), and the groundbreaking Comfortless Trilogy on US military comfort women.
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Translator
Roxanne Edmunds
Roxanne Edmunds is a translator based in the UK. She studied Korean language and literature at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and attended LTI Korea Translation Academy.
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Writer
Seo Hyoin
Seo Hyoin’s works include the poetry collections Behaviour Guidelines for the Boy Partisan, The World War of a Hundred Years, Yeosu, I Hate Myself Because I Love Myself, and There is No There, as well as the essay collections This Is All Because of Baseball, Welcome to the World, My Daughter, and Anyways, It’s a Pop Song. He has won the Kim Su-Young Literary Award, the Daesan Literary Award, and the Cheon Sang-byeong Poetry Award.
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Writer
Shin Soojeong
Shin Soojeong is a professor at Myongji University and a literary critic. She previously served as an editor for the Munhakdongne Quarterly and has published a collection of critical essays titled The Meat Hanging in the Butchershop.
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Writer
Shin Yeonsun
Shin Yeonsun is the author of the novel When Clouds Overlap, and co-author of the essay collection Because of All Things, I Love Books.
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