Born a refugee of the Vietnam War, and now a Pulitzer Prize winning American author, Viet Thanh Nguyen unpacks the refugee experience, and the politics and the personal weight of remembering, and forgetting.This event was recorded at the <a href="https://mwf.com.au/program/viet-thanh-nguyen-a-man-of-two-faces">Melbourne Writers Festival on 11 May 2024</a>.Speakers<a href="https://vietnguyen.info/">Viet Thanh Nguyen</a> Author, <a href="https://www.hachette.com.au/viet-thanh-nguyen/a-man-of-two-faces-shortlisted-for-the-baillie-gifford-prize-for-non-fiction-2024">A man of two faces,</a> The Sympathizer, Simone (children's book) and more<a href="https://www.andredao.com/">Andre Dao </a>(host) Author, <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/anam-winner-of-the-2024-pms-literary-award-and-shortlisted-for-the-2024-miles-franklin-9781761046940">Anam</a> (winner of the <a href="https://creative.gov.au/advocacy-and-research/events/prime-ministers-literary-awards/">2024 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction</a>)Postdoctoral Research Fellow, <a href="https://about.unimelb.edu.au/news-resources/awards-and-achievements/awards-and-prizes/dr-andre-dao-awarded-prime-ministers-literary-award-for-fiction#:~:text=Postdoctoral%20Research%20Fellow%20at%20the,family%2C%20false%20imprisonment%20and%20migration.">Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne</a>Co-founder, <a href="https://behindthewire.org.au/">Behind the Wire oral history project </a>(and later the award-winning Messenger podcast)

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Memory, refugees and the Vietnam War — with Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen

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