Viet Nguyen’s novel, THE SYMPATHIZER, will be published in April 2015. Here he talks about why he wrote it. The novel, THE SYMPATHIZER, begins…(read more)
PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION * EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE * FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, CENTER FOR…(read more)
Viet sells his novel to the storied publisher Grove/Atlantic. Here’s the news from Publishers Marketplace: New deals for December 5, 2013 Debut Viet Thanh…(read more)
The Guardian runs this interesting profile of Suboi, Viet Nam’s most popular female rapper. Check out the improvised rap she does for the article. She is known as…(read more)
The Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore granted Viet a three-month Visiting Senior Research Fellowship. He will be in residence at…(read more)
USC Dornsife professors each take a 2013 Provost’s Prize for Teaching With Technology for research in which their students use diving computers and easily…(read more)
Do you respond to emails/letters? I do my best to write back to everyone who writes to me. If I’m really lucky, I do…(read more)
Founded in 1994, Kaya Press is an independent not-for-profit publisher of Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic literature. It is dedicated to the publication of new…(read more)
The Henry Luce Foundation awarded Viet Nguyen and his colleague, Janet Hoskins, a $200,000 Luce Grant for 2011-2014 to develop a Center for Transpacific…(read more)
The Journal of Global Viet Diaspora promotes the publication of high-quality research on Vietnamese diasporic experiences, broadly defined. It explores and examines Vietnam, and the…(read more)
The American Council of Learned Societies granted Viet a research fellowship for academic year 2011-2012 to work on his scholarly book about war and…(read more)
The USC Mellon Mentoring Awards honor individual faculty for helping build a supportive academic environment at USC through faculty-to-student and faculty-to-faculty mentoring. Viet was one…(read more)
Viet was selected as one of the twenty-six recipients who were awarded with a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation‘s Investing in Artists…(read more)
In a recent course on the American War in Viet Nam, Viet and his students created An Other War Memorial, which won a grant from…(read more)
The Asian Cultural Council awarded Viet and his colleague, Sam Sweezy, with a grant to research photography and memory in contemporary Vietnam.(read more)
My colleague at USC, Josh Kun, has an article in the New York Times today talking about Asian American musicians. He draws attention to what many of us…(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)
