At age four, American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen fled his birth country with his parents as refugees of the Vietnam War. Now a Pulitzer Prize winning author, he unpacks the refugee experience, and the politics and the personal weight of remembering, and forgetting.This event was recorded at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 11 May 2024.SpeakersViet Thanh Nguyen Author, A man of two faces, The Sympathizer, Simone (children's book) and moreAndre Dao (host) Author, Anam (winner of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction)Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of MelbourneCo-founder, Behind the Wire oral history project (and later the award-winning Messenger podcast)
At age four, American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen fled his birth country with his parents as refugees of the Vietnam War. Now a Pulitzer Prize winning author, he unpacks the refugee experience, and the politics and the personal weight of remembering, and forgetting. This event was recorded at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 11 May 2024. Speakers Viet Thanh Nguyen Author, A man of two faces, The Sympathizer, Simone (children's book) and more Andre Dao (host) Author, Anam (winner of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne Co-founder, Behind the Wire oral history project (and later the award-winning Messenger podcast)