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2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Homeland Elegies (2020) is a New York Times bestselling novel by Ayad Akhtar, the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (for his play Disgraced).
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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.
- Noel King
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...
Aug 31, 2020 · With its sprawling vision of contemporary America, “Homeland Elegies” is a phenomenal coalescence of memoir, fiction, history and cultural analysis. It would not surprise me if it wins him a...
Sep 15, 2020 · Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 2013 play "Disgraced," returns with his second novel, "Homeland Elegies," in which he examines the thorny complications and...
- Connor Goodwin
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"As the eldest son of an immigrant family — my parents were both the first to leave their countries and their respective families — there was a lot of love, a lot of expectation and a lot of investment in me. The decisions that I made in my life were very consequential for my parents, and the consequences on my parents were very consequential on me...
"My dad grew up in a rural and rugged part of northern Pakistan. His family was the only highly educated family in that area. His father had been sent to the tribal areas as a supervisor of agricultural education. They were Punjabis living in a very non-Punjabi atmosphere. "He often used to say to me that if he had more to do with my upbringing, I ...
"My mom was definitely a more reserved person. She enjoyed a quiet life — which she almost never had with my dad. She was a contemplative person and was very philosophical. She loved to read Marcus Aurelius and Baltasar Gracián. She liked to sit around with her sons talking about things, rather than being out doing something like my dad always want...
"I get a lot of grief any time I talk about this with any granularity — but Islamist views have had much deeper support in the Muslim world than people understand or realize. "Folks in the West don't seem to understand their own participation in all of this. It's as if we're over here in America, living our lives, drinking our beers — and then thes...
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.
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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