This interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen was conducted by Ruby Perlmutter for LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. Published in 2015, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer tells the story…(read more)
Ruby Perlmutter discusses The Sympathizer and other works with Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview for Literature Interpretation Theory. Published in 2015, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s…(read more)
Dao Strom discusses the founding of diaCRITICS and the Vietnamese culture with Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview. This is a conversation interview conducted…(read more)
In this interview for Aspen Words, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the challenges of writing The Refugees and the power of writing. Aspen Words will…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees in this interview with PBS during the 2017 AWP Book Fair. (read more)
This Storyological Podcast, originally published on December 11, 2017, features Viet Thanh Nguyen’s short story “The Transplant” from The Refugees. Podcast: Storyological 2.19 – EVERYTHING YOU HAVE…(read more)
Michael LeMahieu and Angela Naimou interview Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels for Contemporary Literature. VIET THANH NGUYEN Conducted by Michael LeMahieu and Angela…(read more)
In this phone interview for Electric Lit, Joe Fassler inquires about the decades of work it took to build up to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer and the Vietnam War in this interview with Robert Scheer of KCRW’s Scheer Intelligence. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author…(read more)
An interview with Bryan Washington regarding refugee literature and American politics. Interview originally published on The Awl. This conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen took place a…(read more)
2017 MacArthur fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses questions of justice, diversity in literature, and empathy across cultures in an interview with Catherine Cusick. Interview…(read more)
In this interview for the Observer, Jimmy Soni asks Viet Thanh Nguyen about his writing process. This past week, Viet Thanh Nguyen was announced as one…(read more)
Long Hoàng of VOA Tiếng Việt conducts an interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen, following his recipiency of the 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant. Tiểu thuyết gia…(read more)
Carol Hills and Marco Werman of Public Radio International interview Viet Thanh Nguyen as a recipient of a MacArthur grant. Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen is one of seven 2017 MacArthur Fellows featured in The Wall Street Journal in October 2017. When told that they’ve been selected for…(read more)
The Huffington Post’s Claire Fallon interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen as a 2017 MacArthur Fellow and prolific author of Vietnamese-American experiences. “Those of us who…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced is listed on Entropy’s Best of 2018: Nonfiction Books and Star Tribune’s Holiday Books List. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Harry N. Abrams) Viet Nguyen, called “one of our great chroniclers of displacement” (Joyce Carol Oates,The New Yorker), brings together writers originally from Mexico,… (read more)
Emily Temple lists Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer in LitHub‘s ten books that have defined the 2010s. Some books are flashes in the pan, read for entertainment and then left on a bus seat for the next lucky person to pick up and enjoy, forgotten by most after their season has passed. Others stick around,… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen reads from The Refugees and speaks on the need for marginalized communities’ narrative voices at Cornell University. Refugee and Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke on the need for more marginalized communities’ narrative voices in literature during a reading in Goldwin Smith Hall on Thursday. The reading was part of the… (read more)
