
Idra Novey
@idranovey
Writer and translator. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED @VikingBooks @dauntbookspub and a forthcoming collection of poems SOON AND WHOLLY @weslpress September 2024.
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Vanessa Chan Raghu Karnad Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나 @DanielLoedel Allison Markin Powell is the award-winning translator of Hiromi Kawakami & Osamu Dazai. Idra Novey is both a translator & author of NYT Notable Book “Take What You Need.” And Aaron Robertson is the translator of writers like Igiaba Scego & the author of “The Black Utopians.”



Yesterday I enjoyed taking “Soon and Wholly” by Idra Novey on the Appalachian trail with me. So much fun to read her words aloud to the trees. I’m obsessed with “That’s How Far I’d Drive for it”



"If there’s a craft to the failing of simple expectations, I have mastered it and majestically" #TodaysPoem #poetry La Prima Victoria by Idra Novey (2012 Poetry International) tinyurl.com/2vh5v7ab

Two novels to read to think through the violence of Trumpism in America (though this violence is international, of course): Idra Novey 's Take What You Need and Attica Locke 's Heaven, My Home - the second in the Darren Matthews Trilogy.


Thanks to TheGuardain for a great discussion on the books of my life. theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…



Exquisite new book from Alina Stefanescu coming this spring.


Very happy and honored that Small Rain is longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction, alongside such excellent writers. bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/202…



Short Fiction by TLM Short Story Prize 2024 runners-up: JL Bogenschneider, Caleb Leow and Benjamin Wal, as well as Idra Novey and Eley Williams. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/single…

'I’ve never made sense, in Rio, in the deep, bodily way that my children and Paulo can, with ease.' New fiction by Idra Novey in our latest issue. Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/fictio…


On the third anniversary of the war on Ukraine, the The Yale Review is publishing - I'm excited to say - a massive, ambitious new short story by László Krasznahorkai, that comes with an interview with Hari Kunzru. Brodernists of the world, this one is for you! yalereview.org/article/kraszn…

I’m so happy that this book of Luis’s beautiful poems, translated by brilliant Idra Novey & me, has found a home at Washington Square Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Look for One Moment in Summer 2026.

