Viet Thanh Nguyen presents The Committed
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Committed, in conversation with Bao Phi, presented by Magers & Quinn
Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer, which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction alongside seven other prizes. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees, the nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award, and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing, The Displaced. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.
Bao Phi is a Vietnamese American Minnesotan raised in the Phillips neighborhood of South Minneapolis. A published poet, a spoken word artist, a children’s book author, a nonprofit arts administrator at the Loft, and a father, he is currently working and raising his child in Powderhorn. He knew Viet before it was cool.
