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Sep 10, 2020 · The elegies of Akhtar’s title are sung for a dream of national belonging that has only receded since 2001. The reader’s experience of the book is one of fragmentation. Akhtar tells stories ...
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“The Looming Tower,” the title of Lawrence Wright’s...
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Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter of Pakistani heritage. He has received numerous accolades including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as nominations for two Tony Awards.
Oct 22, 2020 · 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 ...
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- Amanpour and Company
Sep 17, 2020 · A yad Akhtar’s new novel Homeland Elegies is a song to and about America, subverting the idea of the so-called “American Dream.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, like the narrator of the story who shares his name, was born in Staten Island to Pakistani immigrant parents and raised in Wisconsin.
Homeland Elegies is Pulitzer-winning playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar’s lyrical response to post-9/11, Trump-era American politics. Drawing on his perspective as the child of Muslim ...
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- Chicago Humanities Festival
Sep 14, 2020 · Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar centers his new novel on a Muslim man who, like Akhtar, is the son of Pakistani immigrants living in Wisconsin.
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