Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri is the author of two novels and a prize-winning book of creative non-fiction, The Ungrateful Refugee . A 2019-2020 Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, and winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize, Dina has won a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, the O. Henry Prize, and was selected for The Best American Short Stories , among other accolades. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries and in the New...See more

Dina Nayeri is the author of two novels and a prize-winning book of creative non-fiction, The Ungrateful Refugee . A 2019-2020 Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, and winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize, Dina has won a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, the O. Henry Prize, and was selected for The Best American Short Stories , among other accolades. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries and in the New York Times , the Guardian , the New Yorker , Granta and many other publications. Dina has degrees from Princeton, Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was born in Iran and currently lives in Scotland, where she teaches at the University of St Andrews. See less