Theater video tags: Yale University

Natasha Trethewey’s Windham-Campbell Lecture

2022 Windham-Campbell Prizes Ceremony

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“That’s one of the reasons I write. I’ve needed to create the narrative of my life, its abiding metaphors, so that my story would not be determined for me.” In this 2022 video, former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write” for the prize ceremony at Yale University.

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Poetry

Creative Nonfiction

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Natasha Trethewey

Windham-Campbell Prize

Yale University

2022

lecture

United States Poet Laureate

Memory of the Vietnam War

Viet Thanh Nguyen: "The Sympathizer, Memory of the Vietnam War"

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At Yale University, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his award-winning novel, The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015), and his latest book, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016), which is a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award in nonfiction.

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Harvard University Press

Yale University