Background
Ahn was born December 2, 1941 in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang University with a Bachelor in English literature in 1965.
Ahn was born December 2, 1941 in Seoul, where he graduated from Sogang University with a Bachelor in English literature in 1965.
He worked as an English-language writer for the of Korea Herald in 1964, and later served as a director for the of Korea Times in 1975-1976. He was Editorial Director for the Korean Division of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1971 to 1974. Ahn made his debut as a translator in 1975, when he published a Korean translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which was serialized in the monthly Literature & Thought.
From that time until the late 1980s, he translated approximately 150 foreign works into Korean.
