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
Texas Library Association: ‘Simone’ Event
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 Discusses 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 […]
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 […]
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Past Events
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 […]
Harvard University Norton Lectures | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other, Lecture 5 | On Being Minor
SPEAKER: VIET THANH NGUYEN Norton Lecture Five: On Being Minor What does it mean to be a “minor” writer? From a minority, from a small nation, from the conquered, from the displaced, from spaces that are inevitably politicized or forgotten or overlooked? Art and politics explicitly overlap for the writer who is forced to be […]
Georgetown University Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice | The Writer in the World, The Writer Displaced: An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen
TUESDAY, MARCH 19TH: GASTON HALLFree tickets distributed 2nd Floor Healy Hall beginning at 3:30PM FEATURED EVENT 6:45PM | An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh NguyenAcclaimed author Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his memoir, A Man of Two Faces, and reflects on the upcoming TV adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer. With former Newshour host Razia Iqbal. Doors open at 6:30PM 7:45PM | Book […]
New Orleans Book Fest | Echoes of the Past: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writing the Vietnamese-American Story Moderated by: Thi Bui
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University brings the world’s leading authors to the university’s uptown campus for a multi-day celebration for book lovers of all ages. Viet Thanh Nguyen will be speaking about his work with Thi Bui on Saturn, March 16th. The third annual New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University will take place […]
The University of British Columbia | The Phil and Lind Initiative: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Moderated by Christopher B. Patterson “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s writing is bold, elegant, and fiercely honest. His remarkable debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize, was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner, and made the finalist list for the PEN/Faulkner […]
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