Idra novey biography

American novelist, poet, and translator

Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator.

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She translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Persian and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Career

Idra Novey^[3] is a novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of the novels Take What You Need (2023),^[4][5][6] a New York Times Notable Book,^[7]Ways to Disappear (2016)^[8] and Those Who Knew (2018),^{[9][10][11][12][13]} which received the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize,^[14] the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Prize,^[15] and was a finalist for the L.A.

Times Book Prize for First Fiction.^[16]Those Who Knew^[17] was also a finalist for the 2019 Clark Fiction Prize,^[18] a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a Best Book of the Year with over a dozen media outlets, including NPR,^[19] Esquire, BBC, Kirkus Review, About Idra Novey - Academy of American Poets WEZOB