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Ayad Akhtar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and playwright whose work has been published and performed in more than two dozen languages. He is the author of Homeland Elegies, hailed by The Washington Post as “a tour de force” and by The New York Times as “a beautiful novel…that circles, with pointed intellect, the possibilities and limitations of American life,” as well as the novel American Dervish. His plays include Disgraced, Junk, The Who & The What, The Invisible Hand, and McNeal. In 2021, he was named New York State Author by the New York State Writers Institute.

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American Dervish

The Who & the What

The Invisible Hand

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Junk

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Homeland Elegies

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Disgraced

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The Radiance

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