Idra Novey

Idra Novey is a writer and translator. Her most recent novel Take What You Need was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize. Her co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian, Lean Against This Late Hour, was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Prize in 2021. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and her most recent book of poetry, Soon and Wholly, is newly out in paperback. She’s written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Guardian.