Idra Novey
Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Persian and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.Life
She grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with 3 siblings. She graduated from Barnard College, and from Columbia University.
She is the author of the novels Those Who Knew and Ways to Disappear.
Her poetry books include Exit, Civilian and The Next Country.
She is the 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.
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.Published works
Novels
- Those Who Knew
- Ways to Disappear
;Full-length Poetry Collections
;Chapbooks
;Translations
;Selected Poems
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Honors and awards
- 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, 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, 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
