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Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he is the author of American Dervish, published in more than 20 languages worldwide and a 2012 Best Book of the Year at Kirkus Reviews, Toronto's Globe and Mail, Shelf-Awareness, and O (Oprah) Magazine. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. His stage play Disgraced played at New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 2012 and won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within. He is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities with degrees in Theater and Film Directing.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Boy from the North Country (2025)
Sam Sussman
"A loving ode to an extraordinary mother; a soulful coming of age; an unlikely portrait of Dylan in his prime as fresh as they come. Sam Sussman's Boy from the North Country heralds the arrival of a blazing new literary talent."
The Director (2025)
Daniel Kehlmann
"The Director is engrossing and luminous, an epic act of historical imagination and an intimate parable about moral compromise and the seductions of art. After Tyll, I wasn't sure how Kehlmann could possibly top himself. He has. This book is a marvel."
This Strange Eventful History (2024)
Claire Messud
"This Strange Eventful History is an astonishment-rich and luminous, dense with life, wide with wisdom. Messud's view of the Cassar family-and we suspect as we read it, her own-is as emotionally precise and imaginatively capacious as her rendering of the history that shapes their fortunes. Rarely has the private magic of familial love been so fully realized in a public act of literature. Just exquisite."
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