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Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Óscar Guardiola-Rivera

South to North conversations

Cartagena 2025, 

The writer Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and was raised in the United States. A professor at the University of Southern California, he has received Guggenheim and MacArthur foundation fellowships. Author of the acclaimed The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, he has also written the short story collection The Refugees, the book of non-fiction Nothing Ever Dies, finalist for the National Book Award, and he edited the anthology of refugee writings The Displaced. His recent publication, A Man of Two Faces, is a brilliant memoir that tells the life story of Nguyen as a refugee, and his identity, both Vietnamese and American. In conversation with Óscar Guardiola-Rivera.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Óscar Guardiola-Rivera