Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter of Pakistani heritage who received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His work has received two Tony Award nominations for Best Play and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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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10th Satellite Awards2010s in culture2012 in literature2013 Pulitzer Prize21st Independent Spirit Awards69th Tony Awards72nd Tony AwardsAasif MandviAmerican DervishAndrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and NonfictionAsian Americans in arts and entertainmentBrown_UniversityCitadel Theatre production historyDisgracedDoug HughesEmily SwallowEthan PhillipsGretchen MolGuthrie Theater production historyHari DhillonHomeland ElegiesIndependent Spirit Award for Best ScreenplayIndhu RubasinghamItzik Cohen (actor)Jennifer von MayrhauserJosh CookeJuan de Pareja (Velázquez)Junk: The Golden Age of DebtLa Jolla Playhouse production historyLibby MunroList of Brown University peopleList of Columbia University alumni and attendeesList of Muslim writers and poetsList of Muslims in entertainment and the media in non-Muslim countries
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Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter of Pakistani heritage who received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His work has received two Tony Award nominations for Best Play and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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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Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Steinberg Playwright Award
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1970-10-28
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Akhtar at the 2012 Texas Book Festival
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Brown University
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American Dervish
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Disgraced
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Homeland Elegies
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Junk: The Golden Age of Debt
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Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter
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