Viet Thanh Nguyen on Adapting His Novel “The Sympathizer” for Television (The Runstad Lecture Series)

UI Administration Auditorium 875 Perimeter Drive, Moscow, ID, United States

The Runstad Lecture Series welcomes Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss the challenges and rewards of adapting his Pulitzer Prize-winning spy novel about a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War into a hit miniseries on HBO. The series stars Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., and Sandra Oh, with showrunner Park […]

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