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X-WR-CALNAME:Viet Thanh Nguyen CCSRE 18th Annual Kieve Lecture "Speaking fo
 r an Other"
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DESCRIPTION:The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE
 ) is thrilled to welcome Viet Thanh Nguyen as our 18th Annual Anne and Lor
 en Kieve Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Nguyen is a renowned novelist and pub
 lic intellectual\, best known for his novel The Sympathizer\, for which he
  won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. His talk is titled "Speaking for 
 an Other".\n\nDr. Nguyenʼs honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
 \, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of Americ
 a\, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American 
 Library Association\, and a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the Californi
 a Book Awards. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memo
 ry of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the Na
 tional Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resis
 tance: Literature and Politics in Asian America.\n\nDr. Nguyen is a Univer
 sity Professor\, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English\, and a Professor of En
 glish\, American Studies and Ethnicity\, and Comparative Literature at the
  University of Southern California. He is also the author of the bestselli
 ng short story collection\, The Refugees. Most recently he has been the re
 cipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations\, and
  le Prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book in France)\, for 
 The Sympathizer.\n\nThe Annual Kieve Lecture is made possible by a generou
 s endowed gift by Anne and Loren Kieve. This year's Lecture is co-sponsore
 d by the Dean of Humanities and Sciences\, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
 \, the Centering Race Consortium\, the Program in Asian American Studies\,
  the Division of Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages\, the Program in A
 frican and African American Studies\, the Department of English\, the Offi
 ce of Religious and Spiritual Life\, the Creative Writing Program\, the In
 stitute for Diversity in the Arts\, and the Asian American Activities Cent
 er.
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen CCSRE 18th Annual Kieve Lecture "Speaking for an 
 Other"
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