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   Abstract. Recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Ayad Akhtar has been lauded as the de facto voice of the American Muslim in theatre and literature. Akhtar, A Pakistani American,...

2. archive.org › details › americandervishn00akhtAmerican dervish : Ayad Akhtar : Free Download, Borrow, and ...

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   Apr 1, 2014 · American dervish. by. Ayad Akhtar. Publication date. 2012. Topics. Muslim families, Fiction, Pakistanis. Publisher.

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   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.

4. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/09/21An American Writer for an Age of Division - The New Yorker

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   Sep 14, 2020 · An American Writer for an Age of Division. The playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar has never been afraid of provoking audiences. His latest work explores the origins of Trump’s toxicity, the...

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5. ejournals.bc.edu › index › elementsmuslim idenTiTy in 21sT CenTury ameriCa - Boston College

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   praise and criticism, one fact remains irrefutable: Ayad Akhtar is now a star artist in modern-day America. And yet, Akhtar’s rise to fame is not as simple as it may appear to the unsuspecting reader or viewer. Akhtar’s new - found stardom owes quite a lot to not only the controver-sial content of his own works, but also the current con-

6. books.google.com › books › aboutDisgraced - Ayad Akhtar - Google Books

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   Ayad Akhtar was born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of American Dervish , published in 25 languages worldwide and a 2012 Best Book of the Year at Kirkus...

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   Who is Ayad Akhtar?

   • 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.

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   Is Ayad Akhtar ambivalence?

   • Ayad Akhtar’s autofictional novel cunningly entwines outrage and ambivalence. Photograph by Cole Barash for The New Yorker A year after Donald Trump assumed office, Ayad Akhtar was at the American Academy in Rome, contemplating populism, the degradation of democracy, and ruinous civil strife.

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   What is Akhtar known for?

   • 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.

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   Why did Akhtar write disgraced?

   • Akhtar was thinking of “Othello” when he wrote “Disgraced,” but the play also owes a debt to the American literature of racial passing, in which characters who have managed to escape their origins fear that some unwelcome revelation will cast them out of the white world they have given everything to enter.

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   What did Akhtar think about finance?

   • Akhtar had grown up with his father’s idea of American culture: Coca-Cola, Lana Turner, the Kennedys, opportunity, abundance. But the more he learned about finance the more he came to believe that money was the root of the whole system. You can have what you can pay for: that was the social contract.

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   Did Ayad Akhtar's 'disgraced' win a Pulitzer Prize?

   • "Review | Ayad Akhtar's play 'Disgraced' won a Pulitzer Prize. Now 'Homeland Elegies' shows what that success cost him". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved February 23, 2021. ^ a b "The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021. ^ "The 10 best books of 2020". EW.com. Retrieved February 23, 2021.

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8. ayadakhtar.com › aboutAbout - Ayad Akhtar

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   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.