Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter of Pakistani heritage, awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His work has received two Tony Award nominations for Best Play, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Edith Wharton Citation for Merit in Fiction. Akhtar's writing covers various themes including the American-Muslim experience, religion and economics, immigration, and identity. In 2015, The Economist wrote that Akhtar's tales of assimilation "are as essential today as the work of Saul Bellow, James Farrell, and Vladimir Nabokov were in the 20th century in capturing the drama of the immigrant experience."
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Akhtar at the 2012 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | October 28, 1970 Staten Island, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Brown University (BA) Columbia University (MFA) |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, novelist, screenwriter |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Notable work | American Dervish (2012) Disgraced (2012) Junk: The Golden Age of Debt (2016) Homeland Elegies (2020) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Drama Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters Steinberg Playwright Award |
| Website | ayadakhtar |
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