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**In conversation with Will Evans, Deep Vellum**
National Book Award finalist **Kaveh 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.

Kaveh Akbar’s *Martyr!* was named a Best Book of 2024 by the *New York Times Book Review.* His 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*. Kaveh 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.

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AUTHOR TALK: Kaveh Akbar - Martyr!

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AUTHOR TALK: Kaveh Akbar - Martyr!

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