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On Winning the Pulitzer Prize
Posted on April 18, 2016 | Leave a commentI got the news at around 3:15 thanks to my Twitter and Facebook feed. I sat around shocked, stunned, fielding phone calls from my publicist and doing news interviews and trying to reply to as many emails, tweets, and Facebook comments and messages as I could. I called my wonderful partner, Lan Duong. I felt queasy and struck by literary lightning. ...(read more)
Charlie Rose Interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen
Posted on December 14, 2016 | Leave a commentViet Thanh Nguyen discusses his debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” with Charlie Rose. TRANSCRIPT Charlie Rose: Viet Thanh Nguyen is here. His debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It examines the Vietnam War through the eyes of its narrator, a mole for the Viet Cong embedded with the south Vietna ...(read more)
Nothing Ever Dies is a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Posted on January 21, 2017 | Leave a commentViet’s book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. The following article by Caroline Kellogg was originally published in the Los Angeles Times. The National Book Critics Circle selected a ...(read more)
The New Yorker: Refugees in America
Posted on February 6, 2017 | Leave a commentThe Pulitzer Prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen tells stories about people poised between their devastated homeland and their affluent adopted country. The following review was written by Joyce Carol Oates for The New Yorker. Consider the distinctions between the words “expat,” “immigrant,” “refugee.” “Expat” suggests a cosmopolitan spirit and resourc ...(read more)
In Praise of Doubt and Uselessness
Posted on April 24, 2017 | Leave a commentThe following article by Viet Thanh Nguyen was originally published by the Los Angeles Times. Almost exactly 20 years ago, I arrived in Los Angeles in the month of June. I had received my doctorate from UC Berkeley in May and had turned 26 in February. That summer, I found a small apartment in Silver Lake and began preparing for a new career as a ...(read more)
Viet Nguyen Awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Posted on October 11, 2017 | Leave a commentThe MacArthur Foundation has awarded Viet Thanh Nguyen with a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship for his work as a fiction writer and cultural critic. In particular, the MacArthur Foundation recognizes Viet Nguyen’s contributions to “challenging popular depictions of the Vietnam War and exploring the myriad ways that war lives on for those it ha ...(read more)
Losing My Son to Reading
Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his feelings on the independence reading…(read more)
Delightful Listening: A Conversation Between Viet Thanh Nguyen with Arundhati Roy
This conversation between Viet Thanh Nguyen and Arundhati Roy, whose latest…(read more)
Leah Franqui Recommends A Reading List About Culture Shock
Lea Franqui lists The Sympathizer on her list of books…(read more)
Book Review: Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jiachen Zhang reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory…(read more)
Claire Polders: The Masterclass Report
Writer Claire Polders reports on the workshop led by Viet Thanh…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Identity, War, and The Sympathizer’s Sequel
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses identity, war, and The Sympathizer’s sequel…(read more)
9 GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS BY AUTHORS BORN IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Emily Temple of the Literary Hub lists The Sympathizer by…(read more)
Revolutionary Crime Fiction
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer makes the Crime Reads list of 21…(read more)
These 14 Short Story Collections Will Change Your Approach to Life
Hadley Mendelsohn of My Domaine includes Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees…(read more)
Meet Viet Thanh Nguyen in Paris on July 4, 8, or 15
Viet Thanh Nguyen returns to the American Library in Paris…(read more)
Modern Language Association Publishes Forum on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Work
The Modern Language Association publishes a forum of articles on…(read more)
The René Wellek Prize Citations 2017
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory…(read more)
The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen REVIEW
Adiba Jaigirdar reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced for Cultured Vultures, giving…(read more)
No Place To Call Home
Kera Thinks interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on World Refugee Day…(read more)
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