Monday, April 12, 2021 1pm to 2pm
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Join a live interview of Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor, Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of English, American studies and ethnicity and comparative literature, by USC Dornsife alumnus Chris Abani, Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University.
Nguyen just published The Committed, a sequel to his debut novel, The Sympathizer, a New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner. A Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he’ll share his thoughts on immigration and the immigrant experience, America and his new novel.
Abani, who graduated from USC Dornsife with a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing, is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He is the recipient of multiple honors, including the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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