Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Reza Aslan about his life and the sequel to The Sympathizer on Rough Draft with Reza Aslan. 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner for ‘The Sympathizer’, Viet Thanh Nguyen, talks with Reza Aslan about what it means to be a refugee vs. an immigrant and how to write a sequel…. (read more)
Tom Lutz interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his life and how that has influenced his writing and world-view for this episode of LARB Radio…(read more)
Melat Ermyas covers the reading of Chicken of the Sea at Elliot Bay Book Company and how Viet Thanh Nguyen talks to his son…(read more)
Samantha Balaban writes about an interview Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ellison Nguyen, and illustrators, Thi Bui and Hien Bui-Stafford had with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the…(read more)
John O’Rourke interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for BU Today about his life, writing, and the choice to be called a refugee. “I am a…(read more)
In an interview for McSweeney’s, co-authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son Ellison Nguyen, alongside co-illustrators Thi Bui and her son Hien Bui-Stafford, talk about…(read more)
Elizabeth Bird for School Library Journal delves into the making of Chicken of the Sea, why sometimes it’s best to encourage creativity in your…(read more)
Jianan Qian interviews Viet Nguyen for The Millions. They discuss the aesthetics and politics of The Sympathizer; how his literary education has nourished his…(read more)
Hosted on The Asian American Literary Review, in an interview with Michael Collier, Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his short story collection, The Refugees.…(read more)
Viet Nguyen (Author of The Sympathizer), Asli Ü. Bâli (Professor of Law at UCLA), and Makeda Best (Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the…(read more)
Viet Nguyen (USC Professor and author of The Sympathizer), Rita Gabis (Poet and author of A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet), and Dawn Anahid…(read more)
Emily Cordo interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about historicizing trauma and the relationship between a writer, their character, and their reader for Porter House Review.…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Rappler about Asian representation in literature. The latest iteration of the Philippine Readers and Writers Festival by National Bookstore…(read more)
Philippine Daily Inquirer writes about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s relationship with the Philippines, The Sympathizer, and writing for identity. The extraordinarily eloquent Vietnamese-American author had…(read more)
Johanna L. Añes- de la Cruz talks with Viet Thanh Nguyen about memory, trauma, and storytelling for ABS CBN News. MANILA — Viet Thanh…(read more)
Robert Ito spotlights Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Los Angeles Magazine.(read more)
Magnus Alsne writes about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s lecture at Uppsala University for the university. I sin hyllade debutroman Sympatisören ger Viet Thanh Nguyen nya perspektiv åt Vietnamkriget och dess efterspel. Då han i dagarna gästar Uppsala som ny hedersdoktor vill han inspirera fler att reflektera över hur vi väljer att minnas vårt kollektiva förflutna. I… (read more)
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund honors Viet Thanh Nguyen with the Justice in Action award at their Lunar New Year Gala. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will hold its Lunar New Year Gala and Justice in Action Awards Ceremony on Thursday, February 6, 2020 at Pier Sixty, Chelsea… (read more)
Michael Berry writes about the creative process between Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, and their children that lead to Chicken of the Sea for Berkeleyside. What happens when a flock of fowl ditch their boring life on the farm and embark on a larcenous ocean voyage? The answers can be found in a new children’s… (read more)
