![]() ![]() Henry Prize: “A Ride out of Phrao” Alaska Quarterly Review, vol. 2013 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program: A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea. ![]() Nayeri also authored the novel A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea and two articles “The Ungrateful Refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’” and “My Father, in Four Visits Over Thirty Years.” In 2017 she wrote the short story, “A Big True.” Nayeri wrote her semi-autobiographical novel, Refuge: A Novel, in 2017. Nayeri earned a MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. ![]() Nayeri is a graduate of Harvard Business school where she earned her MBA and Princeton University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts. Throughout the family’s refuge, Nayeri’s father remained in Isfahan, where he still lives. After fleeing Isfahan, the three of them spent two years as asylum seekers in Dubai and Rome, and later settled in the United States as refugees before gaining citizenship in 1994, when Niloo was fifteen. The family fled because Nayeri’s mother converted to Christianity and the Islamic Republic threatened her with execution. Nayeri fled Isfhan in 1988 at the age of 8 with her mother, who was a doctor, and brother, Daniel. She is an Iranian American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Publication date 2013 Topics Social conditions, Self-realization in women - Fiction, Iran - Social conditions.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |