Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Here are some of the best interviews or profiles that Viet has done, and some of the most compelling reviews of his work.
VIET Thanh Nguyen is a writer who has masterfully explored the complexities of identity, displacement and the human cost of war. His work, spanning fiction
In this episode of Friday Night Semites, we sit down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor Viet Thanh Nguyen, acclaimed for his book The Sympathizer
Filmmaker Raoul Peck and author Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss their road to making art that’s political and subversive for Aljazeera— Studio B: Unscripted Haitian filmmaker
In this season 4 finale episode, actors from The Sympathizer television show, Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Duy Nguyen, Kayli Tran, PhanXine, VyVy Nguyen, and
To write as an other is to remember the conditions and origins of one’s otherness, which are usually unhappy, both individually and collectively. What are
What fun! Portrait mode with Viet, director Park Chan-wook, and the cast of THE SYMPATHIZER from HBO.
The author’s books and lectures liberate challenging perspectives from the confines of genre, expectation, and academia for Alta Viet Thanh Nguyen may be one of
What does it mean to be a “minor” writer? From a minority, from a small nation, from the conquered, from the displaced, from spaces that
Mari Uyehara interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen—The Vietnamese-American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective for The Nation Like
Colonization violated borders and redrew them, generating political, economic, and cultural consequences that are still being lived and felt. Part of the literary and cultural
For Asian Americans, among whom I count myself, the question of Palestine holds great relevance. And for writers, among whom I also count myself, the
Asian Americans exist at the juncture of exclusion and inclusion. Asian American culture and politics is more unified in the face of exclusion and less
This opening lecture addresses what it means to write as an other, especially given writing’s power both to save and to destroy the other. The
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss his new memoir, “A Man of Two Faces,” which has been called one of
This opening lecture addresses what it means to write as an other, especially given writing’s power both to save and to destroy the other. The
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