What We Owe
Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction · 2019 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction | 2019 | Winner |
About This Book
Nahid is an Iranian-Swedish woman dying of cancer who has been estranged from her daughter for years. In her final days she must decide whether to reach out before she dies. The novel is her imagined letter of reckoning—with her life, her choices, the revolution she fled, and the daughter she pushed away. A spare, devastating novel about the weight of the past. Translated from Swedish by Elizabeth Clark Wessel. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction.
About the Author
Golnaz Hashemzadeh BondeSwedish-Iranian
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde is a Swedish-Iranian author born in Tehran in 1983. She came to Sweden as a refugee as a child and grew up there, studying philosophy at Uppsala University before becoming a novelist. She is also a business executive and entrepreneur. Read more →
