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)
Viet Thanh Nguyen reviews Christopher Sorrentino’s The Fugitives. Originally posted as a New York Times Sunday Book Review on February 19, 2016. Kat Danhoff is a…(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)
The American Library Association has awarded the 2016 Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction to The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove…(read more)
New York, December 8, 2015 – The Center for Fiction, founded in 1820 as the Mercantile Library Association of New York, is pleased to…(read more)
ABC’s (Australian Broadcasting Company) book club covers Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed in an episode about how the Vietnamese diaspora responds to war. Vietnam, diasporas, and the aftermath of war in this month’s edition of The Book Club. BOOKS Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, Corsair Nam Le, The Boat, Penguin GUESTS Assoc Prof Nathalie Nguyen,… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen will share insights on The Committed for LA Times‘ March Bookclub event. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” introduced us to the “man of two faces and two minds,” a double agent living in Los Angeles after the fall of Saigon. Nguyen’s anonymous spy returns this week in “The Committed,” with a new life and adventures… (read more)
In this profile by Alexandra Alter for the New York Times, Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on memory and what that means for his narrator in The Committed. In one of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories, he is on a boat leaving Saigon. It was 1975, and he and his family had been turned away from… (read more)
