Brother Anthony of Taizé was born in Cornwall, England in 1942. A member of the Community of Taizé since 1969, he has been living in Korea since 1980. A prolific translator, since 1990 he has published over fifty volumes of translations of Korean literature, mostly contemporary poetry, as well as novels such as The Poet (Vintage, 2001) and Son of Man (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015) by Yi Mun-yol. He is the current President of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch and lives in Seoul.