Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies In-Person
The 2022 Community Speaker Series presented by The Community Library and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference welcomes award-winning writer and playwright, Ayad Akhtar.
This free event will be outdoors in Ketchum's Forest Service Park. Bring your camp chairs, blankets, picnics, and join us! No registration is required. The conversation will be livestreamed and available to view later. Click here to watch online.
Novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of Homeland Elegies, which The New York Times selected as a Top 10 Book of 2020. His award-winning plays include Junk (Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What; and The Invisible Hand (Obie Award, two Olivier Award nominations). He is the current President of PEN America, and was named New York State Author in 2021.
- Date:
- Wednesday, July 20, 2022
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Forest Service Park
- Campus:
- Off-Site
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Lectures & Conversations
