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      • Ayad Akhtar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist. His 2020 book, Homeland Elegies, is a deeply personal, impassioned work that blends fiction, memoir and political engagement.

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  3. www.npr.org › 2020/09/14 › 911981941Ayad Akhtar On 'Homeland Elegies': It's Real, It's Fiction ...

    Sep 14, 2020 · Ayad Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, his play about a conflicted American Muslim man living in New York after Sept. 11.

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  4. www.nytimes.com › 2020/09/14 › booksWith Wit and Anger, Ayad Akhtar Addresses What It Means to Be ...

    Sep 14, 2020 · In 2013, he won a Pulitzer Prize for “Disgraced,” a dinner-party-gone-wrong drama that deals with Muslim-American life, 9/11, money and identity politics. Akhtar was recently named the new...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Homeland_ElegiesHomeland Elegies - Wikipedia

    [3] Ron Charles of The Washington Post lauded the book, calling it a "tour de force" and declared that he would not be surprised "if it wins [Akhtar] a second Pulitzer Prize". [9] Junot Diaz , reviewing the book for O Magazine , called Homeland Elegies "the book of the year".

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  7. www.washingtonpost.com › entertainment › books'Homeland Elegies,' by Ayad Akhtar book review - The ...

    Aug 31, 2020 · A decade after the attacks of Sept. 11, Ayad Akhtar staged a play called “Disgraced” that captured the paradox of being an American of Muslim descent. His one-act drama, which went on to win...

  8. www.shondaland.com › ayad-akhtar-homeland-elegiesHow Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Homeland Elegies’ Recasts the American Dream

    Sep 14, 2020 · Reviews have called Homeland Elegies “autofiction,” with critics insisting Akhtar — who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his first produced play, Disgraced, which was also nominated for a Tony award for Best Play that same year — is being disingenuous when calling the book a novel. But this is all by design.

  9. www.youtube.com › watchPulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Ayad Akhtar on “Homeland ...

    He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for his candid and thought-provoking play "Disgraced," examining the identity crisis among Muslims after 9/11. This conversation continues in his new book "H...

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  10. www.cbc.ca › radio › writersandcompanyAyad Akhtar examines the soul of America through his own ...

    Oct 23, 2020 · Akhtar also explored themes of race and culture in his first novel, American Dervish, and in his provocative play Disgraced, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Akhtar spoke to Eleanor...

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