Idra Novey

Novey is a novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of the novels Take What You Need (2023),{{Cite news |last=Moss |first=Sarah |date=2023-03-13 |title=A Novel of Messy Relationships — Like the America It's Set In |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/books/review/take-what-you-need-idra-novey.html |access-date=2024-04-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=Take What You Need — a major novel of contemporary America |url=https://www.ft.com/content/64fd1a67-c621-4c46-9ca5-c7f3ef39257c |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=www.ft.com|date=July 28, 2023 |last1=Keeble |first1=Arin }}{{Cite web |last=Berry |first=Lorraine |date=2023-03-14 |title=Idra Novey's new novel proves fiction can be worth a thousand think pieces |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-03-14/idra-noveys-take-what-you-need-proves-fiction-is-worth-a-thousand-think-pieces |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} a New York Times Notable Book,, a New York Times Notable Book, Ways to Disappear (2016){{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-idra-novey-20160403-story.html |title=The vapor between languages: Idra Novey on writing and translation |work=LA Times Books |author=Dustin Illingworth |date=April 1, 2016 |accessdate=May 29, 2018}} and Those Who Knew (2018),{{cite web |url=https://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2018/05/prepub/fiction-previews/sophisticated-reads-fiction-previews-nov-2018/ |title=Sophisticated Reads: Fiction Previews, Nov. 2018 |work=Library Journal |author=Barbara Hoffert |date=May 14, 2018 |accessdate=May 29, 2018 |archive-date=May 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180530020416/https://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2018/05/prepub/fiction-previews/sophisticated-reads-fiction-previews-nov-2018/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thelily.com/those-who-knew-by-idra-novey-addresses-the-patriarchal-messages-we-have-been-marinating-in/|title = 'Those Who Knew' by Idra Novey addresses the 'patriarchal messages we have been marinating in'| newspaper=The Washington Post | date=January 16, 2019 | last1=Patel | first1=Neema Roshania }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/three-novels-metoo-era/580369/|title = How to Tell an Open Secret|website = The Atlantic|date = 16 January 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/11/18/669007543/book-review-those-who-knew|title = Book Review: 'Those Who Knew'|website = NPR.org}}{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-popular-senator-hides-his-violent-ways-in-a-novel-that-feels-eerily-prescient/2018/11/05/8adcced0-ddea-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html |title=A popular senator hides his violent ways in a novel that feels eerily prescient |date=2018-11-08 |orig-date=2018-11-05 |author1=Ilana Masad |newspaper=The Washington Post |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}{{WaPoCheckDates}} which received the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize,{{Cite web|url=https://www.samirohrprize.org/winners|title = Winners}} the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Prize,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-a-7|title = Brooklyn Public Library Announces Winners of Second Annual Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize|date = 24 October 2016}} and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-latimes-book-prize-finalists-20170222-story.html|title = L.A. Times Book Prize finalists include Zadie Smith and Rep. John Lewis; Thomas McGuane will be honored|website = Los Angeles Times|date = 22 February 2017}} Those Who Knew{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/idra-novey-wrote-a-metoo-novel-before-the-metoo-movement-1541424467|title=Idra Novey Wrote a #MeToo Novel Before the #MeToo Movement|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=5 November 2018|last1=Florsheim|first1=Lane}} was also a finalist for the 2019 Clark Fiction Prize,{{Cite web|url=https://news.txstate.edu/inside-txst/2019/rebecca-makkai-wins-2019-clark-fiction-prize-for--the-great-believers-.html|title=Rebecca Makkai wins 2019 Clark Fiction Prize for 'The Great Believers'|date=July 2021}} a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a Best Book of the Year with over a dozen media outlets, including NPR,{{Cite web|url=https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/#/book/those-who-knew-a-novel|title=NPR's Book Concierge}} 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 {{Ill|Garous Abdolmalekian|fa|گروس عبدالملکیان}}, 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,{{cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2179561/idra-novey |title=Idra Novey |work=Penguin Random House |author= |date= |accessdate=June 5, 2018}} and she has received awards from Poets & Writers, the Poetry Foundation, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Idra grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, one of four siblings. She graduated from Barnard College,{{Cite web |title=Literary Roundup {{!}} Barnard College |url=http://fom.barnard.edu/magazine/fall-2018/literary-roundup |access-date=2023-06-22 |archive-date=2018-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126092756/http://fom.barnard.edu/magazine/fall-2018/literary-roundup |url-status=bot: unknown }} and from Columbia University.{{Cite web|url=https://arts.columbia.edu/news/wrialumna-idra-novey-wins-100000-sami-rohr-prize|title=WRI_Alumna Idra Novey Wins $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize|access-date=2018-11-26|archive-date=2021-11-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112032955/https://arts.columbia.edu/news/wrialumna-idra-novey-wins-100000-sami-rohr-prize|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=Idra Novey |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/novey-idra |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Jewish Women's Archive |language=en}} She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.{{Cite web |date=2016-08-18 |title=Idra Novey: 'I wanted to burn down the house of fiction' |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/18/idra-novey-i-wanted-to-burn-down-the-house-of-fiction |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}

• Ways to Disappear (Little, Brown & Company, 2016) {{ISBN|9780316298506}}
• Those Who Knew (Viking Books, 2018) {{ISBN|9780525560432}}{{Cite news |title=Review {{!}} A popular senator hides his violent ways in a novel that feels eerily prescient |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-popular-senator-hides-his-violent-ways-in-a-novel-that-feels-eerily-prescient/2018/11/05/8adcced0-ddea-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html |access-date=2018-11-26 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en}}
• Take What You Need (Viking Books, 2023) {{ISBN|9780593652855}} {{Cite news |last=Moss |first=Sarah |date=2023-03-13 |title=A Novel of Messy Relationships — Like the America It's Set In |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/books/review/take-what-you-need-idra-novey.html |access-date=2023-06-22 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Frank |first=Joan |title=A mysterious rift propels the story in 'Take What You Need' |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/03/13/idra-novey-take-what-you-need/ |access-date=2023-05-03}}

• The Next Country Alice James Books, 2008. {{ISBN|9781882295715}}
• {{cite book| title=Exit, Civilian: Poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ea_HAgAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820343488}}
• Soon and Wholly, Wesleyan University Press, September 2024

• The Next Country (Poetry Society of America, 2005)
• Clarice: The Visitor, with images by Erica Baum (Sylph Editions, 2014)

• Dark Period, by Garous Abdolmalekian in [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/magazine/poem-dark-period.html The New York Times Magazine], co-translated with Ahmad Nadalizadeh.
• Oh! by Luis Muñoz for [https://poets.org/poem/oh Poem-a-Day], co-translated with Garth Greenwell.
• The Clean Shirt of It, by Paulo Henriques Britto BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007. {{ISBN|9781929918935}}
• On Elegance While Sleeping, by Emilio Lascano Tegui (Dalkey Archive, 2010. {{ISBN|9781564786043}}
• Birds for a Demolition, by Manoel de Barros Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010. {{ISBN|9780887485237}}
• The Passion According to G.H., by Clarice Lispector New Directions, 2012. {{ISBN|9780141197357}}
• Lean Against This Late Hour, by Garous Abdolmalekian, co-translated with Ahmad Nadalizadeh, Penguin Press, 2020. {{ISBN|9780143134930}}

• "The Man from the Ad" (Guernica, 2011)
• "The Specialist" (StoryQuarterly, 2015)
• "[https://theamericanscholar.org/under-the-lid/ Under the Lid"] (The American Scholar, 2016)
• "[https://yalereview.org/article/husband-and-wife-during-nightly-news Husband and Wife During the Nightly News]" (The Yale Review, Winter 2019)
• "[https://chroniclesnow.com/stories/harmony-interrupted Harmony, Interrupted]" (The Chronicles of Now, 2020)
• "[https://yalereview.org/article/novey-fiction-the-glacier The Glacier]" (The Yale Review, Summer 2021, winner of a 2022 Pushcart Prize{{cite tweet |number=1524105985522114561 |user=YaleReview |title=1/ We're so thrilled to announce that four of our contributors have won 2022 Puschart Prizes! Congratulations to… |date=10 May 2022}})
• [https://granta.com/conversations-with-my-father/ "Conversations with My Father"] (Granta, 2023)

• [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244700 "The Visitor"] (Poetry Foundation, 2012)
• [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244704 "La Prima Victoria"] (Poetry Foundation, 2012)
• [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/246982 "On Returning to My Hometown in 2035"] (Poetry Foundation, 2014)
• [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/246980 "The Duck Shit at Clarion Creek"] (Poetry Foundation, 2014)
• [https://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/house-sitting-with-approaching-fire/ "House-Sitting With Approaching Fire"] (Guernica, 2014)
• [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/still-life-invisible-canoe "Still Life With Invisible Canoe"] (Academy of American Poets, 2015)
• "[https://poets.org/poem/nearly Nearly]" (Poets.org, 2019)
• "[https://apublicspace.org/magazine/detail/night-sky-with-blue-silo-and-a-bonfire Night Sky with Blue Silo and a Bonfire]" (A Public Space, 2022)
• [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161344/thats-how-far-id-drive-for-it "That's How Far I'd Drive for It"] (Poetry Foundation, 2023)

• [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/travel/chile-idra-novey.html "‘Change Your Life,’ the Poet Says, and a Rural Idyll Offers a Tantalizing Choice"] (The New York Times, 2018)
• [https://orionmagazine.org/article/norman-ed-sculpture-art-appalachia/ "New Narratives and Discards"] (Orion Magazine, March 2023)
• [https://yalereview.org/article/idra-novey-the-novey-scrapyard "Monstrous Hybrids and the Conjuring of Legacy"] (Yale Review, 2023)

• 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series Fellowship for The Next Country [http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/chapbook_fellowship/?action=list Poetry Society of America > Chapbook Fellowships > Past Winners]
• 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award for The Next Country [http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/winners.html Alice James Books > Past Award Winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709040335/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/winners.html |date=2008-07-09 }}
• 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center for The Clean Shirt of It [http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/396 PEN American Center > Translation Fund Grants] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627072442/https://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/396 |date=2012-06-27 }}
• 2009 NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation[https://web.archive.org/web/20091201035346/http://www.nea.gov/Grants/recent/09grants/LitTranslation.html National Endowment for the Arts 2009 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects]
• 2011 Best Translated Book Award (shortlisted) for On Elegance While Sleeping [http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3757 2011 Best Translated Book Award: Fiction Longlist]
• 2011 National Poetry Series for Exit, Civilian
• 2016 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (finalist) for Ways to Disappear {{cite web |url=http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/book-prizes-previous-winners/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116081020/http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/book-prizes-previous-winners/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-01-16 |title=Previous Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners & Finalists |author= |date=2017 |accessdate=May 30, 2018}}
• 2016 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Ways to Disappear {{cite web |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/announcing-the-discover-great-new-writers-spring-2016-selections/ |title=Announcing the Discover Great New Writers Spring 2016 Selections |work=Barnes & Noble |author=Miwa Messer |date=December 2, 2015 |accessdate=May 29, 2018}}
• 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Ways to Disappear {{cite web |url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-a-7/ |title=Brooklyn Public Library Announces Winners of Second Annual Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize |work=Brooklyn Public Library |author= |date=October 22, 2016 |accessdate=May 29, 2018}}
• 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Ways to Disappear {{cite web |url=http://www.jta.org/2017/05/03/default/idra-novey-wins-sami-rohr-prize-for-jewish-literature |title=Idra Novey wins Sami Rohr prize for Jewish literature |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |author= |date=May 3, 2017 |accessdate=May 3, 2017}}
• 2022 Pushcart Prize for "The Glacier", Yale Review {{cite tweet|number=1524105985522114561|user=YaleReview|title=1/ We're so thrilled to announce that four of our contributors have won 2022 Pushcart Prizes! Congratulations to…|date=10 May 2022}}

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