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
Harvard University Norton Lectures | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other, Lecture 3 | On the Death of Asian Americans
SPEAKER: VIET THANH NGUYEN Norton Lecture Three: On the Death of Asian Americans Asian Americans exist at the juncture of exclusion and inclusion. Asian American culture and politics is more unified in the face of exclusion and less unified in the face of inclusion. This lecture looks at this dynamic as it is dealt with […] ...
Harvard University Norton Lectures | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other, Lecture 4 | On Crossing Borders
SPEAKER: VIET THANH NGUYEN Norton Lecture Four: On Crossing Borders Colonization violated borders and redrew them, generating political, economic, and cultural consequences that are still being lived and felt. Part of the literary and cultural response has been to find the right forms that can speak back to colonization; the ones that interest this lecture […] ...
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 […] ...
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 […] ...
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Past Events
Singapore Writers Festival | In A Tiny Room With Viet Thanh Nguyen
SWF invites you to another round of our beloved In A Tiny Room series, a literary gathering in one of Singapore’s beautiful hidden spots. In this edition, some of the Festival’s most loved writers take over Projector X: No Spoilers Bar. Guests will enjoy an intimate conversation followed by a Q&A session. This programme is part […] ...
Singapore Writers Festival | Keynote Talk: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Almost a decade since the Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel The Sympathizer was published, we revisit developing conversations around the continuing global refugee crisis with acclaimed author Viet Thanh Nguyen. As displaced individuals contend with the physical perils of war, we consider a different conflict that has emerged within the global imaginary: how has storytelling been used by some […] ...
Singapore Writer’s Festival | Keynote Lecturer: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen will be the Keynote Lecturer of the Singapore Writer’s Festival on November 17th-20th, 2023. Tune in for more information for this event. ...
A Man of Two Faces Tour | San Francisco
In conversation with Shereen Marisol Meraji, award-winning journalist. In-person tickets can be purchased here. There is also an option for virtual attendance. With his debut novel, The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen distinguished himself as one of today’s most remarkable literary voices. The book earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and praise from critics and readers alike. Nguyen […] ...
A Man of Two Faces Tour | Seattle
Both in-person and Zoom tickets are available for this event. Purchase tickets here. Tickets Range From: In-person: $10-$80 Digital Access: $10-$100 ...
A Man of Two Faces Tour | San Jose
DVAN & Eastwind Books event. In Conversation with Cathy Park Hong. Start time TBD. ...
A Man of Two Faces Tour | Portland Book Festival
Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Tommy Orange—This is a special event of the Portland Book Festival which requires an add-on ticket to attend. 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 memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, […] ...
A Man of Two Faces Tour | Houston, Texas
Viet Thanh Nguyen will read from his new memoir A Man of Two Faces, followed by an on-stage conversation with Houston writer Bao Long Chu. TICKETS: $5 general admission tickets on sale on this webpage starting on Monday, October 2 at 12 pm noon. VIET THANH NGUYEN VIET THANH NGUYEN, a MacArthur “genius” fellow, has “a voice that shakes the walls […] ...
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