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 a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and the UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize. The author of two novels – Refuge and A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea – and contributor to The Displaced, her work has been published in over twenty countries. Her stories and essays have been published in The O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, the New York Times, Guardian, Wall Street Journal and many other publications. She lives in London.
Dina Nayeri on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Ungrateful Refugee
Dina Nayeri
‘I was born in 1979, a year of revolution, and grew up in wartime.’ Dina Nayeri on growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Fiction | The Online Edition
In Transit | New Voices
Dina Nayeri
‘Now it seemed that the rest of life was only a bright, eye-burning white expanse, like the sun-bleached concrete slabs just outside this building.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Dina Nayeri | Interview
Dina Nayeri
‘I could shape a story before my mouth could shape the words.’
