National Book Award finalistKaveh Akbar’s debut novel, Martyr!,features a newly sober orphaned son of Iranian immigrants. Guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, he embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning - in faith, art, ourselves, and others.
Martyr! was named a Best Book of 2024 by the New York Times Book Review. Akbar's poems appear in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections, Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at the University of Iowa and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson.
Akbar will be in conversation with Will Evans of Deep Vellum.
National Book Award finalistKaveh Akbar’s debut novel, Martyr!,features a newly sober orphaned son of Iranian immigrants. Guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, he embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning - in faith, art, ourselves, and others.
Martyr! was named a Best Book of 2024 by the New York Times Book Review. Akbar's poems appear in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections, Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at the University of Iowa and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson.
Akbar will be in conversation with Will Evans of Deep Vellum.
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