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
Alta | ‘The Sympathizer’, California Book Club’s January 2025 Selection | Author Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with CBC Host, John Freeman
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel is the California Book Club’s January 2025 selection. I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds,” the unnamed narrator of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 debut confesses. Addressed to the Commandant, this powerful, immersive, and funny […]
Mill Valley Public Library | Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Soleil Ho
About the Event The Mill Valley Library is thrilled to present an evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) in honor of his new nonfiction book, To Save and to Destroy in partnership with Book Passage Corte Madera. To Save and to Destroy is an unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms […]
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Past Events
Chevalier’s Books | Story Time with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan
Date and time Sunday, December 15th | 11:00 AM Location 133 North Larchmont Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90004 About This Event Minnie Phan (@minnie_phan) is an award winning illustrator and writer based in Oakland. Her past clients include the San Fran Museum of Modern Art, Chronicle Books, and the San Fran public library, which she […]
The Libros Lincoln Heights | Book Reading and Signing with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Date and time Saturday, November 23rd | 3:00 PM Location 3422 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90031 About This Event The Libros at Lincoln Heights is a local bookseller found in Northeast Los Angeles. During this special event, Viet Thanh Nguyen will host a book reading and signing for whichever books the audience would like […]
DVAN ÁCCENTED | Navigating Transcultural Identity: The Vietnamese German Experience
WELCOME DVAN is excited to host this episode of ÁCCENTED, “Navigating Transcultural Identity: The Vietnamese German Experience,” featuring writer Khue Pham and runner/writer Thi Minh Huyen Nguyen in conversation with hosts Viet Thanh Nguyen, pulitzer-prize winning author, and Philip Nguyen, Vietnamese-American studies scholar. DETAILS Thursday, November 21, 2024 | 6:00 PM PST Event is FREE […]
Austin Library | The Library Foundation | Stories: Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen
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 a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award. The critically acclaimed television adaptation of ‘The Sympathizer’ is currently airing on MAX as a limited series. Other books by Viet […]
Ocean County College | Grunin Center for the Arts | A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Schedule The 11:00 am event is open to the public. At 12:30 pm, an informal Q&A will be held for OCC Students, Faculty, and staff. Registration with an OCC email address is required for this session. About Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet Thanh Nguyen’s writing is bold, elegant, and fiercely honest. His remarkable debut novel, The Sympathizer, […]
LitLit 2024 Festival | On Adaptation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Anna Dorn, Jane Hu, Jonathan Ames, and moderated by Paul Thompson
Los Angeles Review of Books presents “On Adaptation,” a conversation on the experience of taking a book to the screen. Authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Anna Dorn, author and TV writer Jonathan Ames, and cultural critic Jane Hu will discuss what it’s like to see their work, and others, be adapted for Hollywood. The conversation will be led by Paul Thompson, an […]
American Academy of Arts & Sciences | Los Angeles Members’ Reception and Discussion: Narratives of the Economy
Recently, scholars and journalists have observed the curious phenomenon that, despite good news from economic indicators like GDP, polls find that Americans are simply not happy about the state of the economy. While material conditions do shape people’s opinions, so do narratives – stories and themes, often originating among lawmakers and the media. Yet the […]
University of Portland | The Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series Welcomes Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writersseries is delighted to welcome novelist and memoirist Viet Thanh Nguyen to our campus for a talk on Wednesday October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in BC. Auditorium. Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer (currently an HBO miniseries), the short-story collection The Refugees, and most recently his memoir A Man of Two Faces. The MacArthur-award […]
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