2026/27 Portland Arts & Lectures: Ayad Akhtar

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright whose work has been published and performed in over thirty languages. He is the author of American Dervish, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and Homeland Elegies, named one of the 10 Best Books of 2020 by The New York Times. The Radiance, his forthcoming novel, will be published in Fall 2026. Akhtar is the author of several plays including Disgraced, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.