[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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The 57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards saw Noh Hye-yeon take home the Poetry Commendation Award. The accomplished translator, who works as an in-house translator at an automotive company, rediscovered her passion for poetry after opening old files and letting go of corporate work and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence.
In her written interview with The Korea Times, Noh expressed how revisiting Lee Su-myeong's poems reignited her literary ambitions. She noted that the exercise reminded her of her enjoyment of translation and the joy she had lost. This win comes after Noh received the fiction Grand Prize in the same competition in 2023. However, her confidence in a future as a literary translator had been shaken in recent times. Noh cited the advent of GPT as a "natural disaster" to her profession.
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