Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) | Across the Ocean: Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Nam Le
Date and time Friday, May 10 · 6 – 9pm AEST Location Brunswick Mechanics Institute270 Sydney Road Brunswick, VIC 3056 AustraliaShow map Refund Policy Contact the organizer to request a refund. About this event WELCOME DVAN is thrilled to host an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Nam Le, author […]
Melbourne Writers Festival | Ghosts: An Evening of Storytelling
What haunts your favourite writers? Do they wake in the night plagued by regrets? Do they see the past spilling into our present? Gather round to hear original ghost stories and moving reflections from a brilliant line-up of some of the best writers in the world. Ghost stories are everywhere. In fairytales, folklore, Gothic novels […]
The Daily Trojan | USC: This is a teachable moment
The April 24 pro-Palestinian protest did not disrupt student life; it is at its very heart for The Daily Trojan A wave of campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza has swept across the United States, beginning at Vanderbilt and accelerating nationally with Columbia University. That wave hit USC on April 24, when students pitched tents at […]
Melbourne Writers Festival | Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with André Dao
With scorching wit and formal inventiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the story of his life in A Man of Two Faces. This highly original memoir takes readers from his success as a writer of novels like the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Sympathizer (now an HBO series starring Sandra Oh and Robert Downey Jr.) to migrating to California as a young refugee […]
Auckland Writers Festival | Viet Thanh Nguyen
One of America’s foremost writers and public intellectuals, Viet Thanh Nguyen sees writing as an act of power and justice. His remarkable debut novel The Sympathizer – a globally minded reimagining of the Vietnam War – won The Pulitzer Prize, sold over a million copies and received a major HBO adaptation. Its equally scorching sequel, The Committed, received similar critical […]
Auckland Writers Festival | Festival Gala Night: Choices and Chain Reactions
Momentous moves or daily small calls. Carefully considered from all angles or those made on the fly. Choices we’d take back or ones we’d defend to our last breath. Our lives and paths are shaped by choices. Whether they’re the choices we wanted to make, the ones we didn’t, the ones made for us or the ones that led us […]
Auckland Writers Festival | Pulp Friction: The Rise of Book Bans
What do the dystopian worlds of Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and 1984 all have in common? Banned books. And with literary censorship on the rise – in 2023 almost 2000 books were targeted for banning in America alone – the distinction between these fictional worlds and our own may not be as stark as we think. Adam Dudding talks to three […]
Sydney Writer’s Festival 2024 x UNSW | Refuge: Viet Thanh Nguyen & Shankari Chandran
The life stories of refugees have all the narrative tropes of myth, replete with world-shattering conflicts, perilous voyages, and courageous heroes who sometimes get to live happily ever after. Hosted by refugee law expert and advocate Daniel Ghezelbash, this free event brings together Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen (A Man With Two Faces) […]
Sydney Writer’s Festival | Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Man of Two Faces
“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces”, begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer, the internationally acclaimed bestseller that was recently adapted into an HBO series starring Sandra Oh and Robert Downey Jr. This duality is also at the heart of Viet’s highly original memoir, A Man of Two Faces, […]
Loyalty Bookstores | Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan for SIMONE
Join Loyalty in welcoming Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan for a VIRTUAL event to celebrate the release of Simone! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast and is free to attend. Click here to register for the event. You can also order the book from our website to be added to the event’s […]
Bel Canto Books | Festival of AAPI Books (FAB) Long Beach 2024
Join us for the Festival of AAPI Books Long Beach at the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library on Saturday, May 4th from 10am to 5:30pm! Join us for the return of FAB (Festival of AAPI Books) Long Beach, featuring children’s, young adult, and adult authors, vendors, arts and crafts, and more, from across the Asian diaspora. […]
Barnes and Noble Reads | Our Most Anticipated Kids’ Books May 2024 — Simone
With the weather slowly but surely warming up, we’re sure the little ones are enjoying hikes, scavenger hunts and outdoor activities aplenty this spring — are they still wearing those eclipse glasses outside? From the next installment in one of our favorite epic series to enchanting new worlds and captivating picture books, you’ll have ample […]
Arizona PBS | Authors Hernan Diaz and Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation
What can a novel about wealth in America tell us about America? In this podcast episode, 2023 Fiction winner Hernan Diaz is in conversation with Pulitzer Board member and 2016 Fiction winner Viet Thanh Nguyen in New York City. Together, the authors discuss Diaz’s “Trust” and “In the Distance” (a Fiction finalist in 2018), as well as Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer” for Arizona PBS Listen […]
Entertainment Weekly | The Sympathizer director wanted to depict the fall of Saigon in ‘a serious, grave manner’
Park Chan-wook, novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, and star Hoa Xuande discuss the premiere episode’s harrowing climax for Entertainment Weekly Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Sympathizer episode 1, “Death Wish.” The Sympathizer begins at the end of the Vietnam War. In the HBO show adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel of the same name, viewers first meet Hoa Xuande’s […]
Esquire | Is HBO’s Rollicking Vietnam War Epic The Sympathizer a True Story? Sort Of
The short answer is no, but also kind of yes. Matt Spriggs writes about ‘The Sympathizer’ and how fictional Viet Thanh Nguyen’s work really is for Esquire A work of fiction may be entirely made up, but the best of it always tells the truth. That’s precisely the case in The Sympathizer, HBO’s rollicking new Vietnam […]
