Ms. Nidra Poller
Nidra Poller (B.A. University of Wisconsin, MA Johns Hopkins University) is an American novelist, translator, and journalist, born in 1935 in Jessup, Pennsylvania, living in Paris since 1972. Her literary career began with the publication in 1966 of a short story, "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona," in the review Perspectives. She has translated, among others, works by French Caribbean and African authors, including Amadou Kourouma, and texts by Emmanuel Levinas (Unforeseen History and Humanism...See more
Nidra Poller (B.A. University of Wisconsin, MA Johns Hopkins University) is an American novelist, translator, and journalist, born in 1935 in Jessup, Pennsylvania, living in Paris since 1972. Her literary career began with the publication in 1966 of a short story, "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona," in the review Perspectives. She has translated, among others, works by French Caribbean and African authors, including Amadou Kourouma, and texts by Emmanuel Levinas (Unforeseen History and Humanism of the Other, University of Illinois Press). Her prize winning books for young readers of all ages, illustrated by internationally renowned artists-Cogollo, Jacques Soisson, Devis Grebu-are collector's items. Author of novels in English and in French (forthcoming), she turned to journalism in 2000. She has published widely in both English and French in print and online media, including the Wall Street Journal Europe, New English Review, Family Security Matters, info�quitable, Valeurs Actuelles, Dispatch International, Tablet, Times of Israel, Midah, Israel Affairs, Makor Rishon, Middle East Quarterly, American Thinker, Commentary, Jerusalem Post English & French, New York Sun, National Post-Canada, National Review Online and dozens of other outlets. Recognized as a singular voice reporting from an international perspective-France, Israel, the US-Nidra Poller has earned praise from respected scholars and writers such as David Pryce-Jones, Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, Shmuel Trigano, Tom Gross, Emmanuel Navon, Richard Prasquier, Efraim Karsh, Amnon Lord, Steve Baum, Richard Landes... She travels regularly to Israel and the United States, speaks in a wide variety of venues, appears on radio, television and in documentary films in France, Israel, the US, and Canada. See less