Nidra Poller (born 1935) is an American author, novelist, translator and writer who has lived in Paris since 1972.
[2][7] She began her literary career in 1966 with the publication of the short story "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona" in the review Perspectives,[2] and was a professor at Federal City College, Washington, D.C., from 1969 to 1972.
[8] 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.
[2] As a Zionist,[9] her writings include observations on society and politics, including a perceived strong anti-Israeli bias in France,[1][2][8] the Muhammad al-Durrah incident[10][11]—a "myth" and "a crudely fabricated video" as she described it in her 2014 book about the incident,[12] and anti-Jewish violence in France[13] such as the murder of Ilan Halimi.
[14] 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",[15] and which "are rendered into a very readable English".