Dina Nayeri

Winner 2020 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
Finalist 2021 Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices
Finalist 2019 Kirkus Prize,
Finalist 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Finalist 2020 Clara Johnson Award

“Written with compassion, tenderness and a burning anger…It speaks powerfully from – and to – the heart. Please read it” —Robert Macfarlane, Underland, Landmarks

“Dina Nayeri’s powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer

“Timely… [told] with tenderness and reverence.” —New York Times

“A work of astonishing, insistent importance.” —The Observer

• “A unique, deeply thought-out refugee saga perfect for our moment.”

  —Kirkus (Starred Review)

• “timely… [told] with tenderness and reverence.”

  —New York Times

• “Compelling, necessary, and deeply thought.”

  —Booklist, Starred Review

• “Filled with evocative prose.”

  —Publishers Weekly

• “A work of astonishing, insistent importance.”

  —The Observer

• “Self-reflective, contemplative and significant.”

  —The Financial Times

• “I’m haunted.”

  —Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk

• “Dina Nayeri’s powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.”

  —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees

• “Written with compassion, tenderness and a burning anger…It speaks powerfully from – and to – the heart. Please read it”

  —Robert Macfarlane, Underland, Landmarks

• “Unflinching, complex, provocative and important.”

  —Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant 

• “The Ungrateful Refugee should be compulsory reading if [policymakers] are to regain or retain a sense of humanity.”

  —Steve Crawshaw, Small Acts of Resistance, and Goodby to the USSR. Policy Director, Freedom from Torture

• “Unflinching, complex, provocative and important.”

  —Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant