Monique Truong

Novelist and occasional food essayist Monique Truong and Soleil Ho, restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, will explore writing about and of food. Eastwind Books of Berkeley is the official bookseller for this event, so please come empty-handed and purchase your copies of Truong's third novel, The Sweetest Fruits, from this beloved indie bookstore.

Reading and book signing with Maylis de Kerangal (The Cook) and Monique Truong (The Sweetest Fruits)

Monique Truong will read from her latest book The Sweetest Fruits as well discuss her food and flavor-centric novels The Book of Salt  and Bitter in the Mouth. Copies of The Sweetest Fruits will be available for purchase at the event. Free but please RSVP online to reserve a seat.

Seriously Entertaining, New York’s premier literary cabaret series showcasing writers and their passions, is an intellectual roller-coaster of a show. More information to come. * Doors open at 6pm.

Monique Truong will read from her latest novel The Sweetest Fruits. Free & open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.

Monique Truong’s novel The Sweetest Fruits is an ingenious retelling of the many lives of Greek-Irish globetrotting writer Lafcadio Hearn, through the voices of the women who knew him best. Curdella Forbes’s novel, A Tall History of Sugar, tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a Jamaican man who was “born without skin,” so that no […]

Monique Truong will introduce Kwaidan (1964, Masaki Kobayashi) based on four ghost stories by expat Lafcadio Hearn (1850 – 1904). Kobayashi’s first color film, with eerie score. “I wanted to create an atmosphere of terror.” – Takemitsu. 35mm. Approx. 183 min.

Ring in the holidays with our tenth annual reading of Charles Dickens' classic "The Christmas Carol." Grab a hot cider from the cafe, your closest friends, and settle in with us and dozens of terrific readers. This year's confirmed readers include: Tom Beer, Sarah Broom, Isaac Butler, Alexander Chee, Vinson Cunningham, Deborah Eisenberg, Rachel Fershleiser, […]

“What does it mean and what does it take to find one’s voice as an Asian in classical music?” Musicians: Del Sol String Quartet and Violinist Joseph Lin Writer: Monique Truong Panelists: Charlton Lee, Joseph Lin, Anjna Swaminathan, Monique Truong, Hyeyung Yoon

A conversation with novelist Monique Truong (The Sweetest Fruits) and translators Allison Markin Powell (The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami) and Tess Lewis (One Another by Monique Schwitter) about how these three novels plumb the mysteries of love in its many discordant and concordant manifestations, and the ingenious ways fiction can flesh out these mysteries.

The Department of English, Philosophy and Languages at LIU Brooklyn invites you to join them at The Annual Paumanok Lecture in American Literature & Culture. Featured authors, Tina Chang, Susan Choi, and Monique Truong, will read from their recent work and join in a conversation with LIU Professor Louis Parascandola.

Free online gathering; registration via EventBrite. Join us for our first (and very exciting) live Book Club with the brilliant and extremely talented author, Monique Truong, who will be joining us to discuss her first novel, ‘The Book of Salt.’ The session will include an interview with the author followed by a discussion about the […]

Online gathering, free with EventBrite registration. Monique Truong in conversation with Lan Cao and her daughter Harlan Margaret Van Cao about their memoir Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, An American Daughter.

Online lecture, "Losing Voice/Finding Voice," and Q&A with Dr. Shih-Hui Chen's MUSI 378 Classical, Contemporary & Cross-Cultural Asian Music

Online gathering, free. Join novelist Monique Truong and poet Rick Barot as they read from their new books, The Sweetest Fruits and The Galleons, and discuss their writing with moderator Professor Jason Oliver Chang. Part of the Asian American Literature Today series, launched in 2014, this event is co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the […]

Online class visit and discussion of The Book of Salt with Associate Professor Anita Mannur's English/Women's and Gender Studies 435/535: Queer Theory

Join artist An-My Lê and author Monique Truong as they discuss how growing up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War became a foundation for their creative practices. The conversation will be moderated by Carnegie Museum of Art curatorial assistant Hannah Turpin. The program is organized in conjunction with An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain, the first comprehensive […]

Online class visit and discussion of The Sweetest Fruits with Sandra Beasley's LIT-215 Writers in Print/Person

Under the timely topic of "Upended," the participating authors, who hail from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S., will reflect upon and discuss major recent changes and disruptions in the areas of culture, politics, and identity in the German-speaking world and the United States. All participating speakers are affiliated with various editions (past and future) […]

Inaugural installment of an online series, hosted by Bao Phi. Each episode will begin with a chat about favorite treats and desserts, followed by discussion of emerging and under-the-radar literary artists, craft talk, and a Q&A with the live online audience.

An online reading, conversation, and Q&A with Mira Jacob & Monique Truong, with moderator Crystal Hana Kim, sponsored by Kundiman.

A marathon online reading featuring a powerhouse collective of Asian American women. In the aftermath of the horrific murders in Atlanta, GA, we offer this space as one for grieving, healing, and empowering. During a time marked by tragedy, anger, and loss, we look to our artistry to find and celebrate the resilience and brilliance of […]

A reading online with winners Monique Truong and Joe Jiménez. More info to come.

Instagram Live Chat Monique Truong in conversation with Kenny Leck, owner of BooksActually, about the forthcoming Singaporean/Malaysian edition of The Sweetest Fruits (Gaudy Boy, 2021).

Monique Truong and Jemimah Wei chat about their favorite fruits, mangosteen feuds, and other literary musings, along with a reading of THE SWEETEST FRUITS. Winners of Singapore Unbound's 7th Singapore Poetry Contest will also be reading their fruit-inspired poems, with an introduction from Marylyn Tan, this year's judge. We invite you to bring your own […]

Monique Truong and Leena Khaled Al-Mujahed, founder of Yemeni Refugee Women Association, in conversation.

Radical Books Collective is dedicated to creating progressive conversations about books and publishing. In collaboration with Gaudy Boy Publishing, they've selected The Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong as the first book of their Fall 2021 online book club. A discussion among the readers will be followed by Truong who'll read from her novel and answer […]

Monique Truong in conversation with Kim Thúy about her new novel, Em, and the layers of pain and trauma in stories we thought we knew. 

Monique Truong in conversation with Mayukh Sen in celebration of his new book, Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, which brings forward the stories of seven immigrant women whose legacies are complicated and often erased, despite their deep global influence in food. Their histories unwrap, layer by layer, revealing experiences of food, […]

Opening remarks by the award-winning author Monique Truong. The six German-language authors of Festival Neue Literatur pair up with celebrated American authors to give a sampling from their work: Anna Baar (Austria); Isabel Fargo Cole and Sasha Marianna Salzmann (Germany); Judith Keller and Ivna Žic (Switzerland); and Benjamin Quaderer (Liechtenstein). English excerpts will be read by American authors John Keene, Idra Novey, John Wray and more.  The event is online, free of charge, and […]

This is an online event.

In commemoration of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s 30th anniversary, AAWW at 30 will explore the values and ideas that lie at the heart of the Workshop’s mission. From the complexities of representation to the need for an artistic home to interrogating our editorial and archival legacies, this series of events will serve not only […]

A sonic essay by Ayşe Köklü, based on the novel BITTER IN THE MOUTH by Monique Truong.

Featured speaker: reading and Q&A.

Longwood's English and Modern Languages Department hosts an on-campus reading and interview with award-winning novelist and essayist Monique Truong, the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize winner, on Thursday April 7. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Jarman Hall, followed by a book signing with the writer and complimentary refreshments in the first-floor […]

Presented by the AAWW in partnership with the Asian American Studies Program & Center at Hunter College and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, a special reading, in-person and online, with many of the writers who helped make the St. Marks space so special: Marina Budhos, Nancy Bulalacao, Christina Chiu, Curtis Chin, […]

World premiere of a nine-movement work, commissioned by The Juilliard School for Juilliard415 & Music Advancement Program Chorus. Composer/conductor: Francisco J. Núñez, Lyricist: Monique Truong.

Welcome cocktail at 6:00pm; presentations begin at 6:15pm. Please RSVP to news@civitella.org

An evening of conversation on contemporary literature, language, and the publishing industry, featuring a brief reading from the author and translator of the Japanese translation of The Sweetest Fruits (Shueisha, 2022), discussion, and audience Q&A session moderated by Professor Shawn Higgins of TUJ. Free online event link. Meeting ID: 936 9734 1171

World premiere: or/and is a multimedia chamber operatic poem, following the journey of a composer who finds her voice only when she accepts the seeming contradictions of her immigrant identity. Choosing “and” over the divisive “or,” this work taps into the inclusive power of AND to help mend our divided world. Composer: Shih-Hui Chen, Librettist: Monique Truong, Director/scenic […]

World premiere: or/and is a multimedia chamber operatic poem, following the journey of a composer who finds her voice only when she accepts the seeming contradictions of her immigrant identity. Choosing “and” over the divisive “or,” this work taps into the inclusive power of AND to help mend our divided world. Composer: Shih-Hui Chen, Librettist: Monique Truong, Director/scenic […]

A conversation with Monique Truong and Scripps College Assistant Professor of English Leila Mansouri

Monique Truong is the 2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence. The reading will be on Tuesday, Mar. 28 at 7:30 pm at Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall and will be open to the public.

Live online & free. An operatic response to the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes, Fractured Mosaics explores the kaleidoscope of cultures and politics of the 20 different ethnic groups that are encompassed under the insufficient umbrella term of “Asian American.” In this live digital opera, five composer-librettists teams create operatic vignettes of Asian Americans establishing […]

Live online & free. An operatic response to the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes, Fractured Mosaics explores the kaleidoscope of cultures and politics of the 20 different ethnic groups that are encompassed under the insufficient umbrella term of “Asian American.” In this live digital opera, five composer-librettists teams create operatic vignettes of Asian Americans establishing […]

Live online & free. An operatic response to the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes, Fractured Mosaics explores the kaleidoscope of cultures and politics of the 20 different ethnic groups that are encompassed under the insufficient umbrella term of “Asian American.” In this live digital opera, five composer-librettists teams create operatic vignettes of Asian Americans establishing […]

AAAYA Board Member, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, in a joint collaboration with her lab Kitchen Marronage, will host the kitchen talk with Monique Truong, covering food histories, literature, and Afro-Asian Archives in the Americas. Moderated Q&A will follow.