[57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Poetry Commendation Award winner Noh Hye-yeon
For Noh Hye-yeon, returning to poetry began with opening old files and rediscovering a pleasure that corporate work and anxiety over artificial intelligence had pushed aside. An in-house translator at an automotive company, Noh spent this summer revisiting poems by Lee Su-myeong that she had first translated in graduate school. Revising them brought her back to the literary ambitions she had…
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Noh Hye-yeon, a translator at an automotive company, found poetry again after a period of corporate work and anxiety over artificial intelligence. While revisiting poems by Lee Su-myeong, she rediscovered the literary ambitions she had given up on. Noh said, "Flipping through my Roget’s Thesaurus again, I realized just how much I was enjoying translation and how much I’d missed it."
Her translations of 10 poems by Lee won the Poetry Commendation Award in this year's Seoul Literature Translation Awards. This is her second major win, as her fiction Grand Prize from the same competition in 2023 also brought her recognition. However, Noh's confidence in being a literary translator had diminished after the arrival of GPT. She shared, "The arrival of GPT felt like a natural disaster to me as a translator."
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