Brother Anthony

Brother Anthony (born 1942) is a translator, scholar, and member of the Taizé Community. He was born Anthony Graham Teague in the United Kingdom but has since become a naturalized citizen of South Korea under the Korean name An Sonjae.
Life
Brother Anthony of Taizé (An Sonjae) was born in 1942 in Cornwall, UK, to Thomas Leslie Teague (February 2, 1914 – March 26, 1985) and Nan Albina Green (July 24, 1911 – February 3, 1991). He studied Medieval and Modern languages at Oxford and In 1969 he joined the Taizé Community in France, a monastic order composed of men from the Protestant, Anglican and Catholic traditions dedicated to spreading the message of trust and reconciliation.
After three years' service in a Philippine slum, in May 1980, Brother Anthony joined other brothers in Korea, invited by the late Archbishop of Seoul, Cardinal Kim Sou-Hwan. He taught English literature at Sogang University, Seoul, for nearly three decades, while translating works of modern Korean literature and also writing books and articles about literature and translation.
Brother Anthony began to translate modern Korean literature in 1988, and since then has published a wide variety of works from such classic Korean authors as Ku Sang, Ko Un, Ch’on Sang-Pyong, So Chong-Ju, Kim Su-Yong, Shin Kyong-Nim, Yi Si-Young, Kim Kwang-Kyu, Ynhui Park, and Yi Mun-yol. In 1991 he won a Modern Korean Literature Translation Award from The Korea Times for his translation of "Headmaster Abe" by Ko Un, and he began serving as one of the contest judges in 1996, which he still does as of 2020. In 1994, Brother Anthony became a naturalized Korean citizen, taking on the Korean name An Sonjae, Sonjae being the Korean form of Sudhana, the 'little pilgrim' of the Buddhist scripture The Gandavyuha Sutra.
From January 2011 to December 2020 he served as president of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, tied for the longest term for an RAS Korea president. He was awarded the Korean government's Order of Cultural Merit, Jade Crown class, in October 2008 for his work in promoting knowledge of Korean literature in the world. He reached retirement age at the start of 2007 and is currently a professor emeritus of Sogang University and a chair-professor of Dankook University. In 2015 he received an MBE. He currently lives in Seoul.
Works
Classical and Biblical Backgrounds to Western Literature. Seoul: Sogang University Press, 1989, Revised & expanded, 2000.
Literature in English Society before 1660: Volume One, The Middle Ages. Seoul: Sogang University Press, 1997
Literature in English Society: Part Two, The Renaissance 1485 - 1660. Seoul: Sogang University Press, 1998
Textual Criticism of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Brother Anthony and Lee Dong-Chun. Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2002.
The Korean Way of Tea. By Brother Anthony of Taizé and Hong Kyeong-Hee. Seoul: Seoul Selection, 2007
Korean Tea Classics. By Brother Anthony of Taizé, Hong Kyeong-Hee and Steven D. Owyoung. Seoul: Seoul Selection, 2010
Eerie Tales from Old Korea. Compiled by Brother Anthony of Taizé. Seoul: Seoul Selection, 2013
Brief Encounters: Early Reports of Korea by Westerners. Compiled by Brother Anthony of Taizé and Robert Neff. Seoul: Seoul Selection, 2016
Romantic Tales from Old Korea. Compiled by Brother Anthony of Taizé. Seoul: Seoul Selection, 2016
Translated works
Translations are from Korean into English unless otherwise indicated.
Poetry
Ku Sang, Wastelands of Fire // Wasteland Poems Forest Books 1990 // DapGae 2000
Ku Sang, A Korean Century (Christopher's River; Diary of the Fields) Forest Books 1991 (Out of print)
Ku Sang, Infant Splendor (Online text and images) Samseong 1991 (Out of print)
Kim Kwang-kyu, Faint Shadows of Love Forest Books 1991 (Out of print)
Ko Un, The Sound of my Waves Cornell EAS 1991 // Cornell – DapGae
Midang, So Chong-ju, Early Lyrics Forest Books 1991 // Cornell - DapGae 1998
Ch'on Sang-pyong, Back to Heaven Cornell EAS 1995 // Cornell - DapGae 1996
Ko Un, What? : 108 Zen Poems (formerly Beyond Self) Parallax (Berkeley) 2008 (1997)
Shin Kyong-nim, Farmers' Dance Cornell - DapGae 1999
Kim Su-young, Shin Kyong-nim, Lee Si-young Variations Cornell 2001
Ku Sang, Even the Knots on Quince Trees Tell Tales DapGae 2004
Ku Sang, Eternity Today Seoul Selection 2005
Kim Young-Moo, Virtual Reality DapGae 2005
Kim Kwang-kyu, The Depths of a Clam White Pine Press 2005
Ko Un, Ten Thousand Lives Green Integer (Los Angeles) 2005
Kim Kwang-Kyu, A Journey to Seoul, DapGae 2006
Ko Un, Flowers of a Moment, BOA 2006
Chonggi Mah, Eyes of Dew, White Pine Press 2006
Special Children, Poems for Planting Love, Seoul Selection 2008
Ko Un, Songs for Tomorrow, Green Integer 2009
Kim Yeong-Nang, Until Peonies Bloom, MerwinAsia 2010
Kim Seung-Hee, Walking on a Washing Line, Cornell EAS 2011
Ko Un, ChaRyong's Kiss (bilingual, poems for children about his daughter), Ba-u-sol 2011
Ko Un, Himalaya Poems, Green Integer 2011
Ko Un, First Person Sorrowful, Bloodaxe 2012
(From the French) Brother Pierre Etienne, Selected Poems, Taize, 2013.
Hong Yunsook, Sunlight in a Distant Place. Foreign Language Publications Ohio State U. 2013
Ynhui Park, Shadows of the Void, Seoul Selection 2014
Lee Si-Young, Patterns, Green Integer 2014
Ko Un, Maninbo: Peace & War, Bloodaxe 2015
Kim Soo-Bok Beating on Iron Green Integer 2015
Anthology, The Colors of Dawn, Manoa, 2016
Do Jong-Hwan, No Flower Blooms Without Wavering, Seoul Selection, 2016
Oh Sae-Young, Night Sky Checkerboard, Phoneme Media, 2016
Shim Bo-Seon, Fifteen Seconds without Sorrow, Parlor Press, 2016
Jeong Ho-Seung, A Letter Not Sent, Seoul Selection 2016
Jeong Ho-Seung, Though flowers fall, I have never forgotten you, Seoul Selection 2016
Ko Hyeong-Ryeol, Grasshoppers' Eyes, Parlor Press. 2017
Lee Seong-Bok, Ah, Mouthless Things, Green Integer 2017
Ko Un, Poems by Ko Un, Asia 2017
Ahn Do-Hyun, Poems by Ahn Do-Hyun, Asia 2017
Kim Jong-Gil, A Black Kite, MerwinAsia 2017
Ahn Sang-Hak, Poems by Ahn Sang-Hak, Asia 2018
Kim Sa-in, Liking in Silence, White Pine. 2019
Yoo Anjin, As I Walk Alone, MerwinAsia 2020
An Hyeon-mi, Deep Work, Asia 2020
Kim Seung-Hee, Hope is Lonely, Arc 2020
Ahn Joo-cheol, Feeling Never Stops, Asia 2020
Kim Soo-yeol Homo Maskus, Asia 2020
Fiction
Yi Mun-yol, The Poet Harvill Press 1994 / Vintage 2001
Lee Oyoung, The General's Beard / Phantom Legs Homa & Sekey 2002
Ko Un, Little Pilgrim Parallax (Berkeley) 2005
Bang Hyeon-seok, Off to Battle at Dawn. Translated with Dafna Zur. Asia Publishers, Bilingual Edition 2013
Yi Mun-yol, Son of Man. Dalkey Archive 2015
J. M. G. Le Clézio, Bitna: Under the Sky of Seoul Seoul Selection (USA) 2017
Jeong Ho-seung, Loving. Seoul Selection 2020
Jeong Ho-seung, Lonesome Jar. Seoul Selection 2020
Non-fiction
Mok Sun-Ok, My Husband the Poet, Seoul Selection 2006
(From the French) Daniel de Montmollin, The Practice of Stoneware Glazes: minerals, rocks, ashes. Paris: La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre. 2005.
Awards
The Korea Times Translation Award (1991)
Daesan Translation Award (1995)
Korean Republic's Literary Award
Korean PEN Translation Award
Korean government's Order of Cultural Merit, Jade Crown class, in October 2008.
References
External links
Brother Anthony's home page
An interview with Brother Anthony on Notebook on Cities and Culture
1942 births
Living people
Korean–English translators
Naturalized citizens of South Korea
British emigrants to South Korea
South Korean people of British descent
South Korean translators
Academic staff of Sogang University