The monthly magazine Vi has nominated both Sara Gordan and Negar Naseh for their annual literature award with the following words from the jury:

With the claustrophobic depiction about how the inner and outer conflicts in parenthood coincide in The Night, Sara Gordan brings her authorship to the next level. With a striking contrast between the precise and restrained prose and the uncompromising love it describes, she has written a deeply moving novel.

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Negar Naseh’s third novel, A Handful of Wind, is about crushed and alive dreams. A sensual and colorful family chronicle from the former Iran revolution, which in a breathtaking way shows us the recently passed in the mirror of the now. This is literature as a source of knowledge, on many levels.

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