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Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri
Dina Nayeri was born in Iran during the revolution and arrived in America when she was ten years old. She is the winner of the UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, as well as a finalist for the Rome Prize and a Granta New Voices Project pick. Nayeri is the author of two novels, Refuge and A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, and her work has been translated into 14 languages and published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. The Ungrateful Refugee is her first book of nonfiction. A graduate of Princeton, Harvard, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she lives in London.


Erasing Metaphors in the Quest to Fit In

Dina Nayeri on the Metaphors of Belief and Belonging
March 7, 2023  By Dina Nayeri
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A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

Dina Nayeri on Javad Djavaher's My Part of Her
February 11, 2020  By Dina Nayeri
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The Art of Surviving a Move to New York

Dina Nayeri on Divorce, Assimilation, and Trying on New Identities
October 23, 2019  By Dina Nayeri
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Dina Nayeri on Returning to the Hotel-Turned-Refugee-Camp of Her Childhood

"To this day, the name Hotel Barba fills me with dread and nostalgia."
September 11, 2019  By Dina Nayeri
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A Literal Hell Constructed for Children: Dina Nayeri on Family Separation

"What Happened to America’s Inner World?"
July 11, 2018  By Dina Nayeri
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O. Henry Prize Winner: Dina Nayeri’s ‘A Ride Out of Phrao’

Originally Appeared in 'Alaska Quarterly Review'
May 21, 2015  By Dina Nayeri
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