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Monday, April 26, 2021

Berkeley Forum hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen

At a Berkeley Forum event Thursday, UC Berkeley alumnus and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen discussed how his writing has been influenced by his personal experiences. Nguyen noted that one of the reasons he wanted to become a writer was to provide more stories for Vietnamese refugees.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and UC Berkeley alumnus Viet Thanh Nguyen discussed how his personal experiences and the political climate have shaped his writing at a Berkeley Forum event Thursday.
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Campus

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Berkeley Forum spring 2021 lineup includes professional athletes, politicians

The Berkeley Forum’s spring 2021 lineup has a diverse selection of speakers who are not only from a wide range of disciplines and ethnic backgrounds but are also unique within their given field.
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Features

Friday, September 6, 2019

Eastwind Books: A unique space empowering Berkeley’s Asian American literary community

What renders the store unique among myriad independent bookstores in Berkeley — or even booksellers in general — is its niche focus.
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Local Event

Monday, April 8, 2019

Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks to maintaining radical roots while navigating academia

On a seemingly typical Tuesday afternoon last week, Wheeler Hall’s Maude Fife Room hosted a very special guest — Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Sympathizer.”
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Literature

Monday, April 30, 2018

Saturday programming of Bay Area Book Festival uplifts marginalized voices

While it may only be the fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival, the festival is already a mainstay in Berkeley. It’s no wonder why.
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Campus

Sunday, October 15, 2017

3 UC Berkeley alumni receive 2017 MacArthur ‘Genius’ grants

Three UC Berkeley alumni were of the 24 winners selected Wednesday for this year’s MacArthur Fellowship ‘Genius’ Grant Awards, which comes with a five-year grant of $625,000 to fund any of the winners’ pursuits.
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Literature

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen talks representation, offers advice

Last Thursday, the UC Berkeley English department held a reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer with USC professor, novelist and UC Berkeley alumnus Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen sat down with The Daily Californian for an interview. Sporting a blue velvet blazer, he is as sharply dressed as he
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