Drinks in The Gallery at Central Library
Dinner in the Special Events Center
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Hanna Huang, Executive Director of the Austin Asian American Film Festival
New York Times bestselling author Austin Kleon, emcee
Dessert, DJ & book signing on the Rooftop Garden
Tarot reading with Typewriter Tarot
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s writing is bold, elegant, and fiercely honest. His remarkable debut novel, ‘The Sympathizer’, won the Pulitzer Prize, was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award. The critically acclaimed television adaptation of ‘The Sympathizer’ is currently airing on MAX as a limited series. Other books by Viet include ‘The Refugees’, ‘The Committed’ and ‘A Man of Two Faces’.
He is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius grant. Along with teaching at the University of Southern California, he works as a cultural critic-at-large for The Los Angeles Times. Viet lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
