Greetings from the Department of English at Southern Methodist University!
We invite you to attend our first events of the year where we will have Pulitzer Prize winners Viet Thanh Nguyen and Natasha Trethewey who will be speaking and doing a reading. Please be sure to review their bios located below. There will be an event on February 20th, 21st, & 22nd. Please see the list of events below. We hope to see you there!
February 20, 6:00 pm:
Natasha Trethewey reading, Bridwell library, room 121 (The Blue Room), cosponsored by the English Department and Bridwell library. A reception will follow
February 21, 6:00 pm:
Natasha Trethewey and Viet Thanh Nguyen discussion of creativity, McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall. Cosponsored by the English Department, the Dallas Literary Festival, and the Department of World Languages and Literature. A book signing will follow.
February 22, 12:00 pm:
Viet Thanh Nguyen reading, Bridwell library, room 121 (The Blue Room), cosponsored by the English Department and Bridwell library
Bio:
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has published two novels, a short story collection, and two nonfiction books, including Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction.
Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her collection, Native Guard, and served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States. The author of five poetry collections and two nonfiction books, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.