Ayad Akhtar – Bookstock Literary Festival (Lecture and Book Signing Cancelled)

Lecture and Book Signing cancelled (due to Covid)

Ayad Akhtar – Bookstock Literary Festival

Saturday, June 25th
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Reception
Woodstock Town Hall Theatre

Free with donations to Pentangle gratefully accepted.

Pentangle Arts and Bookstock VT are pleased to present award-winning novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Ayad Akhtar, as the keynote speaker of the Bookstock Literary Festival, Saturday, June 25, 2022 in the Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. A reception for the author and book signing will take place following the engagement

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 author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), which The Washington Post called “a tour de force” and The New York Times called “a beautiful novel…that had echoes of The Great Gatsby and that circles, with pointed intellect, the possibilities and limitations of American life.” His first novel, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), was published in over 20 languages. As a playwright, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations).

This program is made possible by a grant from the Vermont Arts Council and Vermont Humanities. Accommodations provided by the Woodstock Inn and Resort.

For additional details visit: bookstockvt.org/speaker/ayad-akhtar

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