Stanford Creative Writing Program | Lane Lecture Series: A Reading with Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event in the Lane Lecture Series: A Reading with Viet Thanh Nguyen.
This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Registration is encouraged but not required. Register here
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Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other awards, and was turned into an HBO limited series. His other books include The Committed, the sequel to The Sympathizer, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction), and A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial. He is also the author of the bestselling short story collection The Refugees, and two children’s books, Chicken of the Sea (written with his son Ellison) and Simone. Besides editing The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives and The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora, he teaches at the University of Southern California, where he is a University Professor. His most recent book is To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, and the edited volume, The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.