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Viet Thanh Nguyen

April 9, 2018 @ 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust

Bold, elegant, and fiercely honest, Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. His collection of stories, The Refugees, gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth.

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America, His novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War is a nonfiction exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War.

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Date:
April 9, 2018
Time:
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1284861674960759

Venue

Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA United States

Organizer

Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures