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 Andrew Wetzel at Lyceum Agency to inquire about Viet to talk at your event.
Upcoming Events
Symphony Space | Selected Shorts: The Best American Short Stories 2026 with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Please note there is a $5 service fee on all tickets. Expected Run Time is 105 minutes IN-PERSON AND LIVESTREAM TICKET OPTIONS AVAILABLE! Buy Tickets Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2026, Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), hosts our annual collaboration with one of the premier anthologies of contemporary […]
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Past Events
La Manifestival 2026 | Usa, la democrazia alla fine
Sunday, October 11 · 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM Teatro Palladium Project 2025 codifies the subversive shift toward a fundamentalist ethnostate. How did this happen? For the past 10 years, the United States has been a case study in the degeneration of an “advanced democracy” into national-populist authoritarianism. This subversive twist, codified in Project 2025, […]
British Library | American Writers’ Week: Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author in conversation with Nikesh Shukla. Thursday 1 October 18.15 Location: Pigott Theatre, British Library, London Duration: 18.15-19.30 Age: 16+ Price In person: £16 Concessions available Online viewing: from £5 Buy tickets for two or more American Writers’ Week events and save 25% on your basket. Additional Information Doors open: 17.45 Bar […]
Adapting The Sympathizer into a graphic novel
Monday, September 28, 2026 6:30 – 8:30 pm Musée des Beaux-Arts · Angers Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and French graphic novelist Antoine Ozanam in conversation with Barbara Diggs as they explore the newly released French graphic novel Le Sympathisant, adapted from Nguyen’s acclaimed novel The Sympathizer. They will discuss the creative process […]
Festival America
Vincennes, FR September 24-27 A unique event, Festival America welcomes approximately 70 authors from North America (United States, Canada, Quebec, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti) every two years to Vincennes (Val-de-Marne, France). Since 2002, its mission has been to celebrate the diversity of the transatlantic world—a cultural mosaic encompassing Indian, Hispanic, African, Anglo-Saxon, French, and Francophone influences—and […]
ÁCCENTED | Fighting for Collective Freedom: Deportation Defense in Southeast Asian Communities
Join DVAN for ÁCCENTED‘s Season 7 opener with guests Thi Bui & Thao Ha! We’ll discuss deportation defense in SE Asian communities and more. EVENT DETAILS Thursday, September 17, 2026 • 6:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ET This event is FREE. Please register in advance to receive a link to join the virtual conversation. […]
Jaipur Literary Festival | What is the New World Order?
JLF Los Angeles Viet Thanh Nguyen, Caroline Elkins and H.E. Nina Hachigian in conversation with Seema Sirohi Sep-15-2026 | 7:30 PM – 8:20 PM ASU California Center Broadway Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Writer-in-Residence at USC. He is the author of the novels The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the basis for an HBO […]
Printers Row Lit Fest
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other in conversation with Donna Seaman Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage(On W. Polk St., just east of Clark St.)Sunday 9/13, 11am Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer, Nothing Ever Dies, and, most recently, To Save and to Destroy. A recipient of […]
Lviv BookForum 2026 | Who Gets to Tell the Story? Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Bogdana Romantsova
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s work combines powerful storytelling with sharp reflections on war, exile, and cultural identity. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former child refugee, he has helped reshape the way we understand the Vietnam War and its aftermath, as well as the experiences of the Vietnamese diaspora. Across fiction and non-fiction alike, Nguyen explores questions […]
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