Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer on the shortlist for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. Originally published by The Dublin Literary Award. 2017 Shortlist…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and the current issue of refugees in America in this interview with Jeffrey Brown at the 2017 AWP…(read more)
Viet’s book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction.…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer wins the 2017 Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) in the novel category. Original article…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War wins the 2017 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer. This PCA/ACA…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction for his novel, The Sympathizer. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is first…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Center for Fiction’s 2015 First Novel Prize for The Sympathizer. Here is the transcript: Speaker 1: And the…(read more)
USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen follows up his Pulitzer Prize win for fiction with a spot on the short list of the National Book…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, The Sympathizer, is among 5 other fiction books nominated for the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The following article was originally…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s latest novel, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, is among 10 books nominated for the National Book Award in the…(read more)
Mystery Writers of America, the premier organization for mystery writers, announced the winners of the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards at its 70th Gala…(read more)
I got the news at around 3:15 thanks to my Twitter and Facebook feed. I sat around shocked, stunned, fielding phone calls from my…(read more)
The Sympathizer is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the United States. Judges Abby…(read more)
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, 2016 “Beautifully written, powerfully argued, thoughtful, provocative.”—Marilyn B. Young, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990 “Readers will…(read more)
Published in April 2015, The Sympathizer has had a good year. It has been listed on over 30 best of the year lists in…(read more)
Chiara Manetti discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s remarks at the Turin Book Fair for this article in Futura News. La Guerra in Vietnam raccontata da una prospettiva diversa, attraverso gli occhi di un protagonista insolito. Il simpatizzante di Viet Thanh Nguyen si pone lontano dalla tipica visione americana della Guerra in Vietnam, il conflitto durato un ventennio e… (read more)
Manuela Marascio discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s remarks of the Vietnam War at the Turin Book Fair in this article for Torin Oggi. L’autore dell’acclamato successo del 2015 “Il simpatizzante” ha parlato delle diverse percezioni tra Occidente e Oriente rispetto alla guerra vietnamita “Negli Stati Uniti ora avverto una regressione delle istanze democratiche. Ma credo sia… (read more)
Thy Vo discusses refugee writers and The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this article for The Mercury News. OAKLAND — Amid a national debate over the country’s policies toward immigrants and deportation policies, a group of panelists spoke of the complexity of being displaced and struggling for identity in the country they sought refuge…. (read more)
