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1. www.npr.org › 2020/09/14 › 911981941It's Real, It's Fiction, It's A Paradox: Ayad Akhtar On His ...

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   Sep 14, 2020 · The narrator's name in the novel is also Ayad Akhtar, and the book reads like memoir. Akhtar says he had to "pilfer" from his own life to write a novel that had the "addictive thrill" of...

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     Ayad Akhtar | Homeland Elegies

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     Playwright Ayad Akhtar on Dialogue

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

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   Sep 14, 2020 · Life and Letters. 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...

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4. newrepublic.com › article › 160796A Novelist’s Reckoning With Identity Politics | The New Republic

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   Jan 6, 2021 · Akhtar’s narrator, also called Ayad, represents a fictionalized version of the novelist himself.

5. www.npr.org › 2013/04/29 › 179829145Behind The Curtain Of 'Disgraced' - NPR

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   Apr 29, 2013 · A play that tackles Islamophobia and questions of Muslim-American identity recently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is Disgraced, by first-time playwright Ayad Akhtar.

6. onthestage.com › blog › ayad-akhtar-the-powerhouseAyad Akhtar: The Powerhouse Playwright Redefining ...

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   The play’s sharp commentary and gripping narrative earned it significant acclaim, including an Obie Award for both Acting (Usman Ally) and Playwriting (Ayad Akhtar) and the John Gassner Award from the Outer Critics Circle.

7. www.economist.com › 2015/09/03 › q-and-a-ayad-akhtarQ&A: Ayad Akhtar - The Economist

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   Sep 3, 2015 · In some of his characters, this rage is in the name of Allah directed at America; in others, it is rage by Muslims towards those whose interpretation of Islam is so intolerant that they feel their...

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   • Bo Hamby and Reena Advani produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web. The narrator's name in the novel is also Ayad Akhtar, and the book reads like memoir. Akhtar says he had to "pilfer" from his own life to write a novel that had the "addictive thrill" of reality TV.

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   Who is Ayad Akhtar?

   • The playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar has never been afraid of provoking audiences. His latest work explores the origins of Trump’s toxicity, the tensions of Muslim identity, and the splintering of a family and a country. Ayad Akhtar’s autofictional novel cunningly entwines outrage and ambivalence. Photograph by Cole Barash for The New Yorker

   An American Writer for an Age of Division | The New Yorker

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   Why does Akhtar feel prophetic?

   • AKHTAR: You know, it just changed the idea that they had of who I was. HEADLEE: You know, in a certain way, your play feels a bit prophetic because the recent bombings in Boston and the reactions among some in terms of how you treat somebody who's Muslim, but is also an American citizen. This is something that your play grapples with.

   Behind The Curtain Of 'Disgraced' - NPR

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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 win a Pulitzer Prize for disgraced?

   • Ayad Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, his play about a conflicted American Muslim man living in New York after Sept. 11. If you find yourself a little confused by Ayad Akhtar's latest novel, Homeland Elegies, that's by design.

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

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   Sep 14, 2020 · In the opening pages of Ayad Akhtar’s new novel, Homeland Elegies, his narrator shares a memory of a college professor, Mary Moroni, speaking damningly about the United States of America.