Noh hye-yeon wins poetry award for translating Lee su-myeong works
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Noh Hye-yeon won the poetry Commendation Award at the 57th Korea Times Literature Translation Awards for her work translating 10 poems by Lee Su-myeong.
Noh Hye-yeon previously worked as an in-house translator for an automotive company. She returned to poetry by revisiting and revising poems by Lee Su-myeong that she first translated during her time in graduate school.
She stated that the process of using a Roget’s Thesaurus and revisiting these literary ambitions brought her a sense of joy that she had lost while working in a corporate environment. This award follows a fiction Grand Prize that Noh won in the same competition in 2023. She expressed that the rise of GPT and artificial intelligence felt like a natural disaster to her career as a literary translator.
Despite these concerns about technology, her recent work on Lee Su-myeong's poetry earned her the latest recognition.
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