Famed Vietnamese-American Writer To Teach Poetry At Harvard University
Nguyen Thanh Viet will receive the Charles Eliot Norton lecture series on Poetry, starting on September 19. Photo: Facebook The previous lecturer was Nobel Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk also took over the position. Some other famous names who have taught the Norton series are writer Toni Morrison, musician Herbie Hancock, director Agnès Varda. The Vietnamese writer said he was a little worried when he heard about the list of great people who taught here, feeling that this position was given to him a bit early. However, he will do his best. He looks forward to seeing his friends in Cambridge and Boston again next school year. The Charles Eliot Norton Lecture on Poetry is a series of lectures applied since 1925. This is Harvard ‘s preeminent series of lectures on the arts and humanities. These lectures recognize individuals with an extraordinary talent for expression, and the term “poetry” is understood in a broad sense, including all expressions of poetry in language...