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Kaveh Akbar

  • Writer, Freelance
  • Director of the English and Creative Writing Major Associate Professor, The University of Iowa
Iowa
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The most searched-for book franchise surprised me.

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By Kiley Reid, Donna Tartt, Kaveh Akbar
| thefuse.co.za
Even if you’re no longer a student, you can always go back to class each fall with a good campus novel. The campus novel, A.K.A. the academic novel, focuses its story entirely on a college or university campus. Purists might suggest these books are limited to higher education, but the campus novel can also encompass boarding school stories. For some readers, the campus novel is nostalgic as they reminisce about their own time at college.
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The most searched-for book franchise surprised me.

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By Kiley Reid, Donna Tartt, Kaveh Akbar
| Book Riot Verified
Even if you’re no longer a student, you can always go back to class each fall with a good campus novel. The campus novel, A.K.A. the academic novel, focuses its story entirely on a college or university campus. Purists might suggest these books are limited to higher education, but the campus novel can also encompass boarding school stories. For some readers, the campus novel is nostalgic as they reminisce about their own time at college.
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Kaveh Akbar on Fiction’s Role Towards Revolutionary Action

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By Kaveh Akbar
| Literary Hub Verified
The following speech was given at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony on November 10, 2025. * I want to thank my editor, Jordan Pavlin, il miglior fabro, for believing in me and this book from the second it landed in your inbox. Thank you to my steadfast agent, Jacqueline Ko, especially for your years of joyfully and passionately representing me when I was but a lowly poet. To the other writers recognized tonight, to the judges, the organizers: it has been a dream. Your company is the prize.
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