CHARLESTON, WV – Nationally renowned novelist and author Viet Thanh Nguyen will deliver the West Virginia Humanities Council’s annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities at Capitol Theater in Charleston on Thursday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m. Nguyen, who won the Pulitzer

Prize in Fiction in 2016 for his debut novel, The Sympathizer, has written extensively about the legacy and memory of the Vietnam War.

“Our 2024 McCreight Lecture with Percival Everett was a standout event,” says the Council’s Executive Director Eric Waggoner. “We had to follow that event with the right speaker, and there is no one better for both the 50 th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the present moment than Viet Thanh Nguyen.”

In 1975, Viet Thanh Nguyen was only four years old when Saigon fell to Northe

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