The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University | Viet Thanh Nguyen and Thi Bui
The New Orleans Book Festival brings the world’s leading authors to Tulane University for a multi-day celebration of their works. The Festival features both fiction
2024 Lannan Literary Festival | An Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Acclaimed author Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his memoir, A Man of Two Faces, and reflects on the upcoming TV adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,
Gold House | The A100 List Honorees: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Park Chan-wook, Hoa Xuade, and many more!
Every May, the A100 honors the 100 most impactful Asian Pacific leaders in culture and society over the past year, as well as special honors
The Hollywood Reporter | How ‘The Sympathizer’ Cast Represents a Portrait of the Modern Vietnamese Diaspora
Several Vietnamese members of the cast personally experienced the fall of Saigon. For others, the HBO limited series was a learning opportunity, and chance to
Los Angeles Magazine | Sandra Oh and Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on HBO’s ‘The Sympathizer’
The star of the spy thriller and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist discuss the strides made — and tensions felt — by Asian American storytellers for
HBO | The Sympathizer Official Podcast | Episode 3
Host Philip Nguyen sits down with the embodiment of the four patriarchs – Robert Downey Jr. First, they’re in conversation with Hoa Xuande to talk
About Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His most recent publication is his memoir, A Man of Two Faces. His other books are the sequel to The Sympathizer, The Committed; a short story collection, The Refugees; Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction); and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He has also published Chicken of the Sea, a children’s book written in collaboration with his son, Ellison. He is a University Professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, he is also the editor of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.