Kim Nhung interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about the relationship of Vietnamese Americans to the political climate of the United States for SBTN.(read more)
Eliza Lomas checks in with Viet Thanh Nguyen a few times over the period of one year to see how he takes on the…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen recounts his memory of the Vietnamese grocery store his parents owned in this essay for CBS News. Author Viet Thanh Nguyen…(read more)
Adraian Lentz-Smith interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his thoughts on the line between fiction and nonfiction and how that may affect the sense of…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks on how the creation of Chicken of the Sea allowed him to bond with his son, Ellison, at the LA…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about narrative scarcity and what it means to create narrative plenitude in this interview for the LA Times Festival of…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Jinwoo Chong about anti-Asian sentiments, writing, and the publishing industry for Columbia Journal. Jinwoo Chong, online editor at Columbia Journal,…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Marco Werman about the political gap within the Vietnamese American community for The World. Vietnamese Americans traditionally vote Republican.…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Stuart Carson for The Daily Trojan about Asian American anger, identity, and more. Asian Americans should be more angry. …(read more)
Asia Society Executive Director S. Alice Mong interviews acclaimed novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Pulitzer Prize winner and first Asian-American Pulitzer board member. They…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins Gilbert King with Min Jin Lee to talk about the proxy Cold Wars, Asian America, and more for the Dayton…(read more)
Victoria Namkung interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about the growth of Asian American literature and what that means now for NBC News. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s…(read more)
Giang Nguyễn interviews Viet Thanh about being selected for the Pulitzer Prize board and the reception of The Sympathizer in Vietnam for Radio Free…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins others with Asia Society Southern California to talk about racism in the Asian American community and how to work against…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Jay Kang about ethnic studies, the Third World Liberation, and Asian American identity on the Time to Say Goodbye…(read more)
Mia Funk interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his process when it came to writing The Sympathizer for The Creative Process. Viet Thanh Nguyen was born…(read more)
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has named Viet Thanh Nguyen as the recipient of its Sidney Hook Memorial Award. Phi Beta Kappa presented the award to Nguyen on August 3rd at the 46th Triennial Council of the Society. The award, established in 1991 in memory of the distinguished American philosopher and Phi Beta Kappa member Sidney Hook (1902–1989), recognizes national distinction… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen will be giving a keynote lecture for the Language and Migration symposium at Princeton University. Language is a vital, but underexplored, factor in the lives of migrants, immigrants and refugees. It has a direct impact on the experiences and choices of individuals displaced by war, terror, or natural disasters and the decisions made by agents who provide… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen hosts ACCENTEDirl for DVAN with featuring authors from various Southeast Asian backgrounds. The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is collaborating with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American (APA) Center to host ACCENTEDiRL: Dialogues in Diaspora. This Spring 2021, ACCENTEDiRL will feature authors, artists, poets, and cultural producers across the Southeast Asian diaspora in a series… (read more)
