Events
events
A comprehensive overview of events Viet will be participating in, from literary panels to commencement speeches. Many of these events are open to the public!
Please email Kevin Mills of The Tuesday Agency to inquire about Viet to talk at your event.
Upcoming Events
Montclair Literary Festival: A Man of Two Faces
Join us on Tuesday, April 30th at 7PM as Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival Co-sponsored with AAPI Montclair welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation about A Man of Two Faces. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal […]
The Smithsonian | Book to Screen: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Adapting The Sympathizer
Join author Viet Thanh Nguyen for a discussion about adapting his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Sympathizer, for the screen. Through clips from the series and readings from the novel, Nguyen will talk about the difficulties and rewards of adapting his work for the screen, among other topics. Like the novel, the HBO series is an espionage […]
Brooklyn Public Library | Viet Thanh Nguyen and Matthew Salesses Discuss A Man of Two Faces
Join BPL Presents for a conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen on his memoir, A Man of Two Faces. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing […]
Bel Canto Books | Festival of AAPI Books (FAB) Long Beach 2024
Join us for the Festival of AAPI Books Long Beach at the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library on Saturday, May 4th from 10am to 5:30pm! Join us for the return of FAB (Festival of AAPI Books) Long Beach, featuring children’s, young adult, and adult authors, vendors, arts and crafts, and more, from across the Asian diaspora. […]
Penguin Random House | Viet Thanh Nguyen at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena
Storytime and art activities with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and artist Minnie Phan From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and illustrator Minnie Phan comes an unforgettable story of a Vietnamese American girl whose life is transformed by a wildfire. When Simone is awakened by her mom as a wildfire threatens their home, […]
VAALA | Viet Book Fest 2024 | Picturing Community: Graphic Novels and Picture Books
Picturing Community: Graphic Novels and Picture Books VAALA | Viet Book Fest 2024 | Picturing Community: Graphic Novels and Picture Books
Penguin Random House | Viet Thanh Nguyen at The Cheech Marin Center
As a part of the Riverside Art Museum’s monthly First Sunday event, Viet Thanh Nguyen will be participating in an author presentation for Simone. More about Simone: When Simone is awakened by her mom as a wildfire threatens their home, it is the beginning of a life-changing journey. On their way to take shelter in […]
Loyalty Bookstores | Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan for SIMONE
Join Loyalty in welcoming Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan for a VIRTUAL event to celebrate the release of Simone! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast and is free to attend. Click here to register for the event. You can also order the book from our website to be added to the event’s […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) | Across the Ocean: Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Nam Le
Date and time Friday, May 10 · 6 – 9pm AEST Location Brunswick Mechanics Institute270 Sydney Road Brunswick, VIC 3056 AustraliaShow map Refund Policy Contact the organizer to request a refund. About this event WELCOME DVAN is thrilled to host an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Nam Le, author […]
Melbourne Writers Festival | Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with André Dao
With scorching wit and formal inventiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the story of his life in A Man of Two Faces. This highly original memoir takes readers from his success as a writer of novels like the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Sympathizer (now an HBO series starring Sandra Oh and Robert Downey Jr.) to migrating to California as a young refugee […]
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Past Events
Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley | Other & Belonging Conference: Collective Memory, Identity, Trauma, and Belonging
What is the role of collective memory in creating identity and belonging? Is it even possible to imagine a belonging that does not require flattened identities that pit one group against another? And most urgently, what are the narratives that can support bridging and solidarity, and repair and rehumanization, even during this time of unimaginable […]
Penguin Random House Spring Book & Author Festival 2024
On April 25th, join Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal for our Spring 2024 virtual book and author festival, a free day-long event celebrating reading, authors, and librarians everywhere! Enjoy a day packed with author panels and interviews, book buzzes, virtual shelf browsing, and adding to your TBR pile. You’ll hear from many of your favorite authors, […]
Los Angeles Times Book Festival
Find your spark at the 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books, April 20-21 on the USC campus. General admission is free and the festival will also feature exclusive paid events with authors and celebrities. Check out the 44th Annual Book Prize honorees and take advantage of our Early Bird Sale on Friend of the Festival+ tickets to unlock […]
Texas Library Association | It’s Not Easy Being Green: New Books about the Environment and Ecology
The Texas Library Association is a charitable non-profit group that promotes libraries in Texas. It was founded in 1902. TLA is affiliated with the American Library Association and has more than 6,000 members made up of librarians and library workers from academic, public, school and special libraries. The TLA 2024 Annual Conference will be held […]
Harvard University Norton Lectures | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other, Lecture 6 | On the Joy of Otherness
SPEAKER: VIET THANH NGUYEN Norton Lecture Six: On the Joy of Otherness To write as an other is to remember the conditions and origins of one’s otherness, which are usually unhappy, both individually and collectively. What are the possibilities in finding joy as an other? “On the Joy of Otherness” is the sixth of six […]
Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee | Asian-Palestinian Solidarity Panel: “On the Pan-Asian Movement for a Free Palestine”
Join PSC and TAPAS this Monday for a talk about the pan-Asian movement for a Free Palestine. Hear from author and professor of English Viet Thanh Nguyen, composer, pianist, and McArthur Fellow Vijay Iyer, interdisciplinary cultural scholar and community organizer Dr. Najwa Mayer, and scholar of visual culture, space, and empire Jacinda Tran. Moderated by […]
Shakespeare and Company (Paris) | Viet Thanh Nguyen on A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Join us for an evening with Pultizer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, as he discusses his inventive and moving memoir A Man of Two Faces. In conversation with Adam Biles. Free & open to all. Places limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. * With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the […]
Daunts Bookstore | Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Natasha Walter
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Pulitzer Prize -winning author of The Sympathiser, which has now sold over a million copies worldwide. We are so lucky to be joined by him this March to discuss his latest book, a highly original and unconventional memoir that sees Nguyen rewind the film of his own life. With insight, humour, formal […]
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