Voices for Gaza | Event Video: Part 2
VOICES FOR GAZA was a tremendously moving event that brought together Palestinian writers and activists and their allies to speak about Gaza, Palestine, and genocide. Before an audience of many hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. […]
Voices for Gaza | Event Video: Part 1
VOICES FOR GAZA was a tremendously moving event that brought together Palestinian writers and activists and their allies to speak about Gaza, Palestine, and genocide. Before an audience of many hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. […]
Friday Night Semites | Viet Thanh Nguyen on Being Canceled Over Palestine: What if those were your people in Gaza?
In this episode of Friday Night Semites, we sit down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor Viet Thanh Nguyen, acclaimed for his book The Sympathizer (now a brilliant show on HBO Max). We discuss his experience of being canceled for speaking out for a ceasefire after October 7 and his thoughts on boycotting other artists—even […]
Oakland Asian Cultural Center | Simone Book Release and Reading
On Sunday, September 22, 2024, we celebrated the release of “Simone,” an exciting new picture book with words by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and art by illustrator Minnie Phan. “Simone” is an unforgettable story of a Vietnamese American girl whose life is transformed by a wildfire. About the Speakers Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet […]
HBO Max | Watch the Official Trailer for The Sympathizer
Minerva | In Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan on their New Children’s Picture Book
Join Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer) and acclaimed artist Minnie Phan in conversation with School Library Journal blogger Elizabeth Bird about their soon-to-be-published children’s book, SIMONE for Minerva Read below for transcript, watch video here Viet Thanh Nguyen: The stream is live. Hello. Hi there. Betsy Bird: Hello. Wonderful. Well, […]
PBS NewsHour | Author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new memoir reflects on family’s experience of war and exile
The Vietnamese-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen has long written on themes of war, refugees and exile. He covers those directly and personally in a new memoir about his own family’s experience, “A Man of Two Faces.” Jeffrey Brown spoke with Nguyen for our arts and culture series, CANVAS for PBS NewsHour. read below […]
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VIET THANH NGUYEN was born in 1971 in Vietnam but grew up in the United States, where he fled with his parents as a four-year-old. He is a professor at the University of Southern California and regularly contributes as a writer to the New York Times and Time Magazine, where he has made a name […]