Interviews

Race, Displacement, and the Public Intellectual: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Posted on December 5, 2018  |  Leave a comment

 Anthony Ocampo interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about race and their intellectual worlds in this interview for Contexts. Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American novelist and academic whose books include The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies, Race and Resistance, and a new edited collection, The Displaced, alongside his best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning book The Sympathizer. Nguyen, University Professor of English, American… (read more)

Sống sót / Survival

Posted on December 5, 2018 | Leave a comment

In this article for the Daily Bruin, Kristie-Valerie Hoang interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen and reports on the Vietnamese-American identity and struggle in California. December…(read more)

General Education S2E14: High Frequency: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Posted on November 27, 2018 | Leave a comment

On the last episode of General Education by Daily Trojan, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the Asian American identity, refugees, and the USC community. Karan…(read more)

Viet Thanh Nguyen on trauma, displacement, and identifying as a refugee

Posted on October 30, 2018 | Leave a comment

Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the role of trauma for refugees as well as his personal experiences in this interview with Ravi Gurumurthy and Grant…(read more)

Viet Thanh Nguyen: ‘As a refugee, I’ll tell you how it is’

Posted on October 29, 2018 | Leave a comment

Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his personal experiences and the state of refugees with Angelo Mastrandrea in this interview for il manifesto. There is an English…(read more)

TBS eFM This Morning Seoul

Posted on October 8, 2018 | Leave a comment

Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his personal experiences as a refugee and the current refugee crisis in this interview with eFM This Morning Seoul.   …(read more)

“REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING”: AN INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN

Posted on September 25, 2018 | Leave a comment

Karl Ashoka Britto interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels and personal experiences as a refugee for Public Books. Since the 2015 publication of…(read more)

“Good” Refugees, “Bad” Refugees: A Conversation in Paris with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Posted on September 24, 2018 | Leave a comment

Christine Buckley interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his books and refugees for the Los Angeles Review of Books.  VIET THANH NGUYEN goes to bed…(read more)

The conundrum of Asian-Americans: a conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Posted on September 9, 2018 | Leave a comment

Nisa Khan and Christian Paneda of Michigan in Color sits down with Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss Asian-Americans and his Vietnamese heritage.  “When I…(read more)

Interview with the New Orleans Review

Posted on August 8, 2018 | Leave a comment

This interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen for the New Orleans Review was conducted by Elizabeth Sulis Kim. Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Vietnamese-American author and Professor…(read more)

“As minhas memórias começam quando me tornei refugiado aos 4 anos”

Posted on August 5, 2018 | Leave a comment

Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees with João Céu e Silva in this interview for Diario de Noticias.  O escritor Viet Thanh Nguyen nasceu no…(read more)

Delightful Listening: A Conversation Between Viet Thanh Nguyen with Arundhati Roy

Posted on July 31, 2018 | Leave a comment

This conversation between Viet Thanh Nguyen and Arundhati Roy, whose latest novel is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), took place at the New York Public Library…(read more)

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Identity, War, and The Sympathizer’s Sequel

Posted on July 4, 2018 | Leave a comment

Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses identity, war, and The Sympathizer’s sequel in this interview conducted by the Les Cahiers Du Nem admin. For his startling and…(read more)

Meet Viet Thanh Nguyen in Paris on July 4, 8, or 15

Posted on June 26, 2018 | Leave a comment

Viet Thanh Nguyen returns to the American Library in Paris to talk about The Displaced and hold two workshops, beginning July 4th.  Evenings with…(read more)

No Place To Call Home

Posted on June 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

Kera Thinks interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on World Refugee Day as they discuss refugees and his essay collection, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee…(read more)

Paul Beatty In Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Posted on June 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

In fall 2017, the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute hosted Beatty and Nguyen for an onstage conversation for Believer Magazine.  A double…(read more)