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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ayad_AkhtarAyad Akhtar - Wikipedia

    ayadakhtar.com. Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He has received numerous accolades including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as nominations for two Tony Awards. Akhtar is known as a playwright covering various themes including the American - Muslim experience, racism, religion ...

  2. Sep 14, 2020 · Success arrived late, but Akhtar has made up for lost time. His first novel, “American Dervish,” about the coming of age of an innocent Pakistani-American boy, was published in January, 2012 ...

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    Akhtar is known as a playwright covering various themes including the American - Muslim experience, racism, religion, economics, immigration, and identity. For his work on Broadway, Akhtar received Tony Award for Best Play nominations for Disgraced (2015) and Junk (2017). He also authored the plays The Who & The What and The Invisible Hand.

  4. Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Akhtar is the author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co ...

  5. Sep 10, 2020 · HOMELAND ELEGIES By Ayad Akhtar. The city of Abbottabad, in the former North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, was named after James Abbott, a 19th-century British Army officer and player in the ...

  6. Oct 23, 2020 · 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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  8. Sep 14, 2020 · Homeland Elegies is about a family, their ties to their homeland of Pakistan, and the new lives they make for themselves in the U.S. The narrator's name is also Ayad Akhtar, and it reads like ...