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Idra Novey is a contemporary poet known for her unique perspective and profound emotional expression. Her poetry blends personal experiences with a wide cultural background, showcasing rich imagination and keen observation.

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Scrittura Scrivere Solitudine

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“Un uomo capace di fare silenzio, è un uomo capace di iniziare.”

Ispirazione Silenzio Ispirational

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“To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.”

Words Cloaked

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“I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it as I'd experienced it, or portrayed translators as the passionate risk-takers that so many of the translators I know are. So I wrote the book I couldn't find.”

Art Book Novel Adventure Passionate Translations Reckless Deep Love Translators

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“I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much of Fernando Pessoa's work. I get restless for a new kind of influence. The books I've translated are books I want to learn from as a writer, to be intoxicated by. And translation is an act of writing in itself. It's an act of recreation - of a writer's cadence and tone and everything that distinguishes the voice in the book.”

Writing Kind Book Influence Restless Translations Translators

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“A single conversation can change things.”

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“It's the best motivation to have a particular beloved reader in mind! Because you feel this urgency that you really want somebody you care about to be able to experience a sentence the way you experienced it in another language.”

Mind Care Motivation Language Beloved Urgency

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“What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.”

Thinking Book Translators

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“I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.”

Language Impulse Translate

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“It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?”

Mind Night Speak Language Tomorrow Persian

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“I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element of absurdism, you can get away with more, work in dark, daring questions you might not have written toward otherwise.”

Thinking Book Literature Dark Serious Get Away Daring

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“Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.”

Serious

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