NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
“Instantly gripping… a master storyteller of the refugee experience.”—Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian
“Few books are as erudite, comprehensive, and intensely personal all at once.” — Library Journal
“An important, courageous, brilliant book” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland
A TIME Best Book of March
Electric Literature’s Books by Women of Color to Read This Year
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023—Literary Hub, The Week, Goodreads et al
“Ardent, harrowing. . . An elegant telling of truth to power.”—Stuart Jeffries, The Observer
“Memoir, philosophy, and social history collide in this compelling examination. . . . [A] powerful, clarifying book.” —Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire
“An unflinching, compelling look at how ‘calcified hearts believe’—and disbelieve.” —Kirkus
“Wide-ranging and provocative.” —Publishers Weekly
“Essential reading”—John Burnside, author of A Lie about My Father
“A masterclass in storytelling.”—Steve Crawshaw, policy director at Freedom from Torture
“A compelling, generous, and distinctive inquiry into the nature of belief… shows the workings of Nayeri’s singular and noble mind.” —Chitra Ramaswamy, author of Homelands: The History of a Friendship
“That rarest of creations, an original work about a condition in which we are all implicated.”—Jeff Sharlet, bestselling author of The Family and This Brilliant Darkness
News
Who Gets Believed? is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
The Paris Review runs Dina’s adolescent diaries and accompanying essay in “Diaries”
The New York Times “First Person” Podcast Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviews Dina
NPR’s “All Things Considered” Juana Summers interviews Dina
NPR features Who Gets Believed? as their Book of the Day
CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine(Canada) Amil Niazi interviews Dina Nayeri
The Globe and Mail (Canada) runs an op-ed by Dina about secularism in Iran
The Guardian Long Read publishes “Foreign Mothers, Foreign Tongues” by Dina Nayeri, about the gulf between Asian mothers and their western daughters
Time Magazine runs an adapted excerpt about the police interrogation of Michael Ledford from Who Gets Believed
The New Statesman “The World Review” interviews Dina about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests in Iran
The Guardian Books gives Who Gets Believed a rave review, calling Dina a ‘masterful storyteller”: “Instantly gripping. . . will cement Nayeri’s position as a master storyteller of the refugee experience.”
The Observer reviews Who Gets Believed: “Ardent, harrowing. . . An elegant telling of truth to power.”
The Waiting Place was a Boston Globe Horn Book Prize finalist
The Ungrateful Refugee has been awarded the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis 2020
The Ungrateful Refugee is a finalist for the Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices 2021
The Ungrateful Refugee is #3 in the Oct 2020 Die Zeit Best Nonfiction List
Dina’s short story “The Cellar” in New York Times Magazine’s Decameron Project
Dina’s essay in The New Yorker
Dina’s essays (including her acclaimed Long Reads “The Ungrateful Refugee,” and others in The Guardian)
The Ungrateful Refugee is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist!
The Ungrateful Refugee is a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize!
Watch Dina’s interview on France 24 Morning Edition
Watch Dina interviewed by Christiane Amanpour on CNN and PBS
ABOUT DINA
Dina Nayeri is the author of “The Ungrateful Refugee,” one of the most widely shared 2017 Long Reads in The Guardian. Winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant (2015), O. Henry Prize(2015), Best American Short Stories (2018), and fellowships from the McDowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, and Yaddo, her stories and essays have been published by The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, Granta New Voices, Wall Street Journal, and many others…read more