Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A series of reviews and articles referring to Viet’s written works.
Last year, acclaimed Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen published To Save and to Destroy: Writing As Other, a collection of six essays adapted from
Refusing to be spectacle. This week on the ABR Podcast, Lynda Ng reviews To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen, who arrived
By Mike Budd The seven-part television series The Sympathizer premiered on HBO on April 14, 2024 to good reviews, with The New York Times praising it as “not
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and what is now celebrated in Vietnam as the unification of the country. Outside
It has been 50 years since the war ended in Vietnam, yet for decades afterward Vietnamese writers have rarely been published in the English language.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is best known for his Pulitzer-winning 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, whose protagonist is a half-French, half-Vietnamese spy for North Vietnam serving in
Nonfiction: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “To Save and to Destroy” grew out of a series of lectures at Harvard. By May-lee Chai For the Minnesota Star
A sharp look at The Sympathizer’s portrayal of exile, dislocation, and life after war through the lens of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s award-winning novel. By Carolina A. Miranda
This trenchant compendium of lectures by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Nguyen (A Man of Two Faces) expounds on “what it means to write and read from
When writing his magnificent debut novel, The Sympathizer, the January California Book Club selection, and other books, author Viet Thanh Nguyen refused to capitulate to the
Review by Eleanor J. Bader When Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-activist Viet Thanh Nguyen was asked to deliver Harvard’s annual Charles Eliot Norton lectures in 2023, he admits that
Critic Anna E. Clark examines Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, dubbing it a thriller of ideas. Anne E. Clark Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer belongs to a prized
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s first novel arises out of a vast archive of literature, including Asian American, African American, immigrant, and postcolonial writing. By Walton Muyumba Dustin
In this newsletter, we look at Viet Thanh Nguyen’s use of contradiction in pursuit of truth in his powerful first novel, the California Book Club’s
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s acclaimed literary novel, which delves into themes of subjectivity, empathy, and solidarity, is particularly relevant to this moment, reasons Ann Gelder, who