The Writers' Workshop presents a Q & A session with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and the novel Homeland Elegies.

From https://ayadakhtar.com/about:

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Akhtar...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and the novel Homeland Elegies.

From https://ayadakhtar.com/about:

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Akhtar is the...

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