Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Han Kang for her 'intense poetic prose' - '강렬한 시적 산문' 으로 한강에게 노벨 문학상 수여

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2024/10/142_384014.html

Nobel Prize in literature is awarded to Han Kang for her 'intense poetic prose'

 

 

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm.

 

Nobel Prize in literature 노벨 문학상

poetic = poetical = lyrical 시적인

prosaic = mandane = dull = ordinary = unimaginative 평범한, 상상력이 없는, 따분한, 세속적인, 산문적인

prose 산문체

poem 시

saga 대하소설, 일련의 모험, 영웅전설

award to = bestow on = present to = confer on = give = grant = honour to ~에 수여하다

confront = face = face up to = face head on 맞서다, 대면하다, 마주하다

historical traumas 역사적 트라우마

fragility = vulnerability = weakness = delicacy = flimsiness = frailty = tenuousness 나약함, 허약함, 부러지기 쉬움

 

Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for “The Vegetarian,” an unsettling novel in which a woman’s decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences. Her novel “Human Acts” was an International Booker Prize finalist in 2018.

 

International Booker Prize 국제 부커상

unsettling 불안하게 만드는, 동요하게 만드는

devastate = wreak havoc on = wreck = ravage = ruin = leave in ruin = reduce to rubble = incapacitate = prostrate = immobilize = paralyze = mar = blight = spoil 황폐화시키다, 엉망으로 마들다, 충격을 주다, 비탄에 빠뜨리다

consequence = sequela = aftermath = aftereffect = implication = ramification = complication = repercussion 영향, 결과

devastate consequence 결과를 초래하다

finalist 결승전 출전자

 

The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated, with just 17 women among its 119 laureates so far. The last woman to win was Annie Ernaux of France, in 2022.

 

face criticism = be accused of = be blamed = be reproached = be reviled = be censured = be condemned = be inveighed against 비난 받다, 욕설하다, 독설을 퍼붓다

male-dominated 남성 위주의, 남성이 우세한

laureate  (뛰어난 업적으로 훈장·상을 받은) 수상자

laurel 월계수, 월계관

so far = up to date = up to present = until now = hitherto = heretofore = to date = thus far = up to the present 지금까지

 

Six days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize. Two founding fathers of machine learning — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the physics prize on Tuesday. On Wednesday, three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

 

Nobel announcement 노벨상 발표

medicine prize 의학상 수상

founding father 창시자, 미국 헌법 제정자

machine learning 머신 러닝

physics prize 물리학상

decode = decipher = analyze = decrypt = unravel = untangle = work out 해독하다, 이해하다, 풀다

novel = new = unusual = original = unconventional 새로운, 신기한

 

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the economics award on Oct. 14. The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death. 

 

Nobel Peace Prize 노벨 평화상

economics award 경제학상

bequest 유증, 유산, 유증재산

leave a bequest 유산을 남기다, 재산을 남기다

 

 

 

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