Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri (born 1979 in Isfahan ) is an Iranian-American writer.

Life

Dina Nayeri was born the daughter of a dentist and a doctor and grew up in Isfahan. She fled Iran with her mother and brother in 1988, her father stayed there. She lived as an asylum seeker in Dubai and Rome and came to Oklahoma in the USA in 1990 . In 1994 she received US citizenship.

Nayeri studied at Princeton University (BA 2001) and Harvard University (MBA). She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop . Nayeri then worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Saks Fifth Avenue . She married Philip Viergutz from France in 2003, they have a daughter and the marriage is divorced. She worked in Amsterdam for a while and has lived in London since 2015 .

Her short stories and essays have been printed in The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , The New Yorker , Granta, and the Wall Street Journal , among others . The Guardian published her essay The Ungrateful Refugee in 2017 . She has received multiple grants and awards.

Works (selection)

• A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea . New York: Riverhead Books, 2013 ISBN 978-1594632327
  • A teaspoon of land and sea: Roman . Translation by Ulrike Wasel, Klaus Timmermann. Hamburg: Mare, 2013 ISBN 978-3-86648-013-1
• Refuge . New York: Riverhead Books, 2017 ISBN 978-1594487057
  • Three are one village: Roman . Translation by Ulrike Wasel, Klaus Timmermann. Hamburg: Mare, 2018 ISBN 978-3-86648-286-9
• The Ungrateful Refugee . London: Waterstones, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Dina Nayeri in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Dina Nayeri in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Dina Nayeri at perlentaucher.de
• Dina Nayeri , website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dina Nayeri: My Father, in Four Visits over Thirty Years , The New Yorker, June 18, 2017
2. ↑ Dina Nayeri: The ungrateful refugee: 'We have no debt to repay' , The Guardian, April 4, 2017