Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Talks Representation, Offers Advice
Author and Berkeley alumnus Viet Thanh Nguyen gets interviewed by Stacey Nguyen of The Daily Californian. Last Thursday, the UC Berkeley English department held…(read more)
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Viet Thanh Nguyen on Hiding in Plain Sight
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses reading ‘Invisible Man’ on The Thread with Kerri Miller. Listen to the full podcast on MPR News or read the…(read more)
Escaping the Vietnam War, But Getting Close to the Enemy
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Leonard Lopate about his debut novel, The Sympathizer, which examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film,…(read more)
Taking Revenge Against Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his novel The Sympathizer on NPR’s To The Best of Our Knowledge. Listen to the full interview here or read…(read more)
The Sympathizer wins Edgar Award for Best First Novel
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)
BBC World News: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Kasia Madera on BBC World News. The interview is available to watch below. Here is…(read more)
On Winning the Pulitzer Prize
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)
An Affirmation of Collectivity
“The Sympathizer” author Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Caleb Downs of SunStruck Magazine on representation, class, and subjectivity. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The…(read more)
The Vietnam War, the American War
Viet Thanh Nguyen sits down with Ricardo Herrera Bandrich of the Los Angeles Review of Books to talk about his novel The Sympathizer. FOR…(read more)
Past to Present: Echoes of War
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, speaks as one of the panelists for “Past to Present: The Echoes of War”, at the 2016 Los…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen On The Tavis Smiley Show
The USC professor and author shares about his recent work Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War on PBS’s Tavis Smiley Show.…(read more)
Interview with the Finalists of 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors exceptionally talented fiction writers whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and…(read more)
The Sympathizer is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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)
Viet Thanh Nguyen Reconciles Childhood Memories, History
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by David A. Maurer of The Daily Progress. Viet Thanh Nguyen was too young to retain reliable memories of…(read more)
Kirkus Reviews: Nothing Ever Dies is “Powerful”
Kirkus Reviews calls Viet’s new book “powerful,” in the first pre-publication review of Nothing Ever Dies, coming out in April from Harvard University Press.…(read more)
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
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)
