Interview with Ayad Akhtar, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Telegraph: What a day to discover that you’ve won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Ayad Akhtar got the call from New York to tell him the surprise good news that he had been awarded one of the most prestigious accolades a playwright can get around the same time that reports started coming in about the bombings at the Boston marathon.
Currently staying in London to be on hand for the UK premiere of the winning work, Disgraced, at the Bush next month, he felt, he reveals, “really odd receiving email after email congratulating me when the BBC was showing the sad events in Boston. In an eerie way, though,” he continues, “it’s very much the world the play comes from and points to.”