Portland Arts & Lectures 2026–27: Ayad Akhtar
Wed, October 21 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
1037 SW Broadway
Portland,
OR
97205
SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED
Literary Arts is pleased to present Ayad Akhtar as part of the 2026-27 Portland Arts & Lectures series.
Please note: a subscription to the entire 2026-27 Portland Arts & Lectures series is required to attend this event.
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.
