About Nidra Poller
Born 1935. Nidra Poller is an American writer and novelist.
Nidra Poller (born 1935) is an American author, novelist, translator and writer who has lived in Paris since 1972. In later years, she has also been a reporter and the Paris editor for Pajamas Media.
Biography Poller is Jewish, and was born to an observant family in Jessup, Pennsylvania. She began her literary career in 1966 with the publication of the short story "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona" in the review Perspectives,
Poller has contributed to publications such as The Wall Street Journal, National Review, FrontPage Magazine, The New York Sun, Commentary, New English Review, Middle East Quarterly, American Thinker, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel and many others. —a "myth" and "a crudely fabricated video" as she described it in her 2014 book about the incident, and anti-Jewish violence in France such as the murder of Ilan Halimi. In addition to being a writer, Poller is also a novelist, author of illustrated books for youths, and a translator, notably of the philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, her translations having been said to manage "to preserve the richness of Levinas's evocative and difficult French", and which "are rendered into a very readable English".
She participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007 and in 2012, and has been on the advisory board of the International Free Press Society.
She has remained an American citizen ever since moving to France in 1972, and does not hold French citizenship.
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