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Dina Nayeri

Dina Nayeri
Dina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee, one of the most widely shared 2017 Long Reads in The Guardian and now a book. 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. Her debut novel, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (2013) was translated to 14 languages. Her second novel, Refuge (2017) was a New York Times editor’s choice. She holds a BA from Princeton, an MBA from Harvard, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and Teaching Writing Fellow. She lives in London.

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  • Fernando Sdrigotti
  • Dorian Lynsky
  • Felicity Cloake
  • Bruno Vincent
  • Gareth E. Rees
  • Paul Burston
  • Shiromi Pinto
  • Olia Hercules
  • Roger Robinson
  • Patrice Lawrence
  • Jo Neary
  • Torcuil Crichton
  • Natasha Carthew
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  • Ken Worpole
  • Amir Dotan
  • Jean McNeil
  • Yasmin Khan
  • Nadia Shireen
  • Dan O’Brien
  • Sophie Naufal
  • Sav Akyuz
  • Isobel Galleymore
  • Wendy Jones
  • Georgina Pringle
  • Suzi Feay
  • Paul Scraton
  • Ana Seferović
  • Emanuelle Dirix
  • Diana Henry
  • Travis Elborourgh
  • Lauren Laverne
  • Alice Lascelles
  • Jude Rogers
  • Sheila Dillon
  • Nadia Valman
  • Golnoosh Nour
  • Serena Constance
  • Martin Rowson
  • Richard Boon
  • Julius Beltrame
  • Alan Johnson
  • Anna Birch
  • Elizabeth Macneal
  • Kiare Ladner
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Greta Bellamacina
  • Caroline Rosie Dent
  • Melanie McGrath
  • Karen Liebenguth
  • Lara Maiklem
  • Kirsten Norrie
  • Michael Goldfarb
  • Anita Sethi
  • Zia Ahmed
  • Nikesh Shukla
  • Neil Denny
  • Jamie Lee
  • Jody Porter
  • Claire Armitstead
  • Alex Clark
  • Robert Montgomery
  • Nicola Kent
  • Coco Khan
  • Joe Haddow
  • Thurston Moore
  • Briony Bax
  • Ken Worpole
  • Michael Bravo
  • Daniel Trilling
  • Julia Bueno
  • Lee Jackson
  • Ryann Donnelly
  • Lynn Enright
  • Alex Jackson
  • Nick Thorpe
  • John Hegley
  • Crystal Mahey-Morgan
  • Jeremy Reed
  • Anthony Cartwright
  • Jan Noble
  • Henny Beaumont
  • Pete Brown
  • Dina Nayeri
  • Will Wiles
  • Stephen Morris
  • John Osborne
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence
  • Francesca Cassini
  • Suzanne Noble
  • Sali Hughes
  • Louie Stowell
  • Xanthi Barker
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Debora Robertson
  • Jessica Martin
  • Nigella Lawson
  • Johny Pitts
  • Ben Moor
  • Tom Huddleston
  • Ed Miliband
  • Eloise Millar
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  • Jenny Linford
  • Kit Caless
  • Catherine Steadman
  • Kostya Tsolákis
  • Mariam Khan
  • Zawe Ashton
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  • Michele Kirsch
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  • Kerry Hudson
  • Joe Kerr
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Valerie Brandes
  • Joel Golby
  • Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley
  • Mazin Saleem
  • Alissa Timoshkina
  • Rosie Price
  • Sean Longden
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