Dina Nayeri won the Geschwister-Scholl Prize
Dina Nayeri is awarded the 41st Geschwister-Scholl Prize for her non-fiction The Ungrateful Refugee.
The purpose of this award is to honor, each year, a recent book that is a testament to intellectual independence. The committee seeks out works that promote civil liberty, moral, intellectual, and aesthetic courage, and that promote responsible consciousness of the present.