Idra Novey

Idra Novey (born Idra Rosenberg) 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 ''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. In 2023, Viking published her third novel,
Take What You Need
'. 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, ''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

* ''Take What You Need'' (Viking Books, 2023)
* ''Those Who Knew'' (Viking Books, 2018)
* ''Ways to Disappear'' (Little, Brown & Company, 2016)

Full-length poetry collections

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* ''The Next Country'' Alice James Books, 2008. ,

Chapbooks

* ''The Next Country'' (Poetry Society of America, 2005)

Translations

* ''Dark Period'', by Garous Abdolmalekian in
New York Times Magazine
', co-translated with Ahmad Nadalizadeh.
* ''Oh!'' by Luis Muñoz fo
Poem-a-Day
co-translated with Garth Greenwell.
* ''Lean Against This Late Hour'', by Garous Abdolmalekian, co-translated with Ahmad Nadalizadeh, Penguin Press, 2020.
* ''The Passion According to G.H.'', by Clarice Lispector New Directions, 2012; Penguin Modern Classics, 2014. ,
* ''On Elegance While Sleeping'', by Emilio Lascano Tegui (Dalkey Archive, 2010. ,
* ''Birds for a Demolition'', by Manoel de Barros Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010. ,
* ''The Clean Shirt of It'', by Paulo Henriques Britto BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007. ,

Short stories

* "The Glacier" (
The Yale Review
', Summer 2021, winner of a 2022 Pushcart Prize)
* "Harmony, Interrupted" (
The Chronicles of Now
', 2020)
* "Husband and Wife During the Nightly News"
The Yale Review
Winter 2019)
* "The Man from the Ad" (''Guernica Magazine'', 2011)
* "The Specialist" ('' StoryQuarterly,'' 2015)

Under the Lid"
(''The American Scholar'', 2016)

Selected poems

Night Sky with Blue Silo and a Bonfire
(''A Public Space'', 2022)

Nearly
(Poets.org, 2019)
"Still Life With Invisible Canoe"
( ''Academy of American Poet''s, 2015)

"On Returning to My Hometown in 2035"
(''Poetry Foundation'', 2014)

"The Duck Shit at Clarion Creek"
(''Poetry Foundation'', 2014)

"House-Sitting With Approaching Fire"
(''Guernica Magazine, 2014)''

"The Visitor"
(''Poetry Foundation'', 2012)

"La Prima Victoria"
(''Poetry Foundation'', 2012)

Nonfiction

*"‘Change Your Life,’ the Poet Says, and a Rural Idyll Offers a Tantalizing Choice,"

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* "New Narratives from Discards and Divides,"
Orion Magazine
'

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''Poetry Society of America > Chapbook Fellowships > Past Winners
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References

External links.

* Official website
www.idranovey.com

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