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American novelist, poet, and translator
Idra Novey
BornWestern Pennsylvania
OccupationWriter, poet, translator
NationalityAmerican
EducationBA, Barnard College, 2000
MFA, Columbia University

Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Persian and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Career

Idra Novey is a novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of the novels Take What You Need (2023), a New York Times Notable Book, Ways to Disappear (2016) and Those Who Knew (2018), which received the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize, the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Prize, and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Those Who Knew was also a finalist for the 2019 Clark Fiction Prize, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a Best Book of the Year with over a dozen media outlets, including NPR, Esquire, BBC, Kirkus Review, and O Magazine. Her poetry collections include Exit, Civilian (2011), selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series, The Next Country (2008), a finalist for the 2008 Foreword Book of the Year Award, and Clarice: The Visitor, a collaboration with the artist Erica Baum. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages and she’s written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, and The Paris Review. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers Magazine, the PEN Translation Fund, the Poetry Foundation, and The Pushcart Prize. Her works as a translator include Clarice Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. and a co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian [fa], Lean Against This Late Hour, a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Prize in 2021. She teaches fiction in the MFA Program at NYU and at Princeton University.

She is the most recent translator of The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, On Elegance While Sleeping by Viscount Lascano Tegui, Birds for a Demolition by Manoel de Barros, and The Clean Shirt of It by Paulo Henriques Britto. With Ahmad Nadalizadeh, she has co-translated from Persian a collection of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian, entitled Lean Against This Late Hour (2020).

Her fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, and she has received awards from Poets & Writers, the Poetry Foundation, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Personal life

Idra grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, one of four siblings. She graduated from Barnard College, and from Columbia University. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Published works

Novels

Full-length poetry collections

Chapbooks and cahiers

Translations

Short stories

Selected poems

Nonfiction

Honors and awards

  • 2022 Pushcart Prize for "The Glacier," Yale Review
  • 2017 Sami Rohr Prize, for Ways to Disappear
  • 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, for Ways to Disappear
  • 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction (finalist), for Ways to Disappear
  • 2016 Discover Great New Writers Pick, Barnes & Noble, for Ways to Disappear
  • 2011 National Poetry Series, for Exit, Civilian
  • 2011 Best Translated Book Award (shortlisted), for On Elegance While Sleeping
  • 2009 NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation
  • 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award, for The Next Country
  • 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center, for The Clean Shirt of It
  • 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series Fellowship, for The Next Country

References

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  34. 2011 Best Translated Book Award: Fiction Longlist
  35. National Endowment for the Arts 2009 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects
  36. Alice James Books > Past Award Winners Archived 2008-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
  37. PEN American Center > Translation Fund Grants Archived 2012-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
  38. Poetry Society of America > Chapbook Fellowships > Past Winners

External links.

Media related to Idra Novey at Wikimedia Commons

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