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Learn about Ayad Akhtar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and Homeland Elegies. Explore his biography, works, awards, and themes of identity, religion, and politics.
Ayad Akhtar is the author of Homeland Elegies, a novel that explores the American dream and its discontents, and Disgraced, a play that examines Islamophobia and identity. He has also written Junk, The Who & The What, and The Invisible Hand, and received many awards and honors for his work.
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 · 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.
- Alexandra Schwartz
Explore the works of Ayad Akhtar, a Pakistani-American playwright who has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Obie Award, and multiple Tony Award nominations. His plays include Disgraced, Junk, The Invisible Hand, and The Who & The What.
By Ayad Akhtar Directed by Kimberly Senior Played October 7 - December 23, 2012 at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center Theater. DISGRACED is the story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots.
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