Name: Book Signing and Reading with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan
Start: 2025-04-12T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-12T14:30:00-07:00
Location: 849 Valencia St

Come meet Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan in person for a book signing and reading session!
About this Event

Book Signing and Reading with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan

Come join us at The International Library of Youth Writing for a special event featuring author Viet Thanh Nguyen and illustrator Minnie Phan! Get your books signed and enjoy a reading of Simone and Chicken of the Sea. This event is family friendly and open to the public! Books will be available for purchase. See you there!

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other awards, and was turned into an HBO limited series. His other books include The Committed, the sequel to The Sympathizer, and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction). He is also the author of the bestselling short story collection The Refugees, and two children’s books, Chicken of the Sea (written with his son Ellison) and Simone. Besides editing The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, he teaches at the University of Southern California, where he is a University Professor. His next book is To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2025. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.

Minnie Phan is an award winning illustrator and writer based in Oakland, CA. Her past clients include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Chronicle Books, and the San Francisco Public Library, with which she illustrated a citywide reading campaign in 2022. As a multidisciplinary artist, she has illustrated over 15 music posters, a 250 square foot mural for Google, and a statewide ad campaign for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. With a focus on picture books and graphic novels, she has been recognized by the The New York Times, Society of Illustrators, and Eisner Awards. She is the illustrator of Simone, written by Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, and The Yellow Áo Dài, written by Hanh Bui. See her work a www.minniephan.comor follow her on Instagram @minnie_phan.