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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)
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 re ...(read more)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Posted on February 11, 2017 | Leave a commentPulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen sits down with Seth Meyers to talk about his refugee experience. In part 2 of this interview, he explains the difference between refugees and immigrants and the fears Americans have of them. Part 1: Part 2: Here’s the transcript of the interview: Seth Meyers: I am such a fan of your work. I lov ...(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)
Paul Beatty In Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Posted on June 15, 2018 | Leave a commentIn fall 2017, the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute hosted Beatty and Nguyen for an onstage conversation for Believer Magazine. A double agent and a sellout. A French Vietnamese man concealed to nearly everyone around him, and a black American who is a stranger in his own hometown. These are the narrators of The Sellout by P ...(read more)
The René Wellek Prize Citations 2017
Posted on June 21, 2018 | Leave a commentViet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War co-wins the 2017 Rene Wellek Prize with Jeffrey Cohen’s Stone. The Rene Wellek Prize is annually awarded, respectively, to the best book overall in comparative literature. Article originally published by ACLA. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Viet ...(read more)
“REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING”: AN INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN
Posted on September 25, 2018 | Leave a commentKarl Ashoka Britto interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels and personal experiences as a refugee for Public Books. Since the 2015 publication of his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen has emerged as one of the literary world’s leading public intellectuals. At a time of rising xenophobia and anti-refug ...(read more)
If the war had not been
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The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s…(read more)
Review of “The Refugees” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Andrea Giostra reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for…(read more)
Why We Struggle to Say ‘I Love You’
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the Asian-American family dynamic and…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen: “Memory is politics in my books”
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer and The Refugees and…(read more)
“The Refugees”: The new storytelling book by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Beate Meierfrankenfeld reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for…(read more)
Christmas reading for the voltage finder
Malin Krutmeijer reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen as…(read more)
A double-spy strange odyssey
Jakob Carlander reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for…(read more)
The Displaced Listed on Entropy and Star Tribune 2018 Best Books List
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced is listed on Entropy’s Best…(read more)
Telling Vietnam refugees: meeting with the Pulitzer Prize author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Matilde Quarti interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of…(read more)
Race, Displacement, and the Public Intellectual: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Anthony Ocampo interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about race and their…(read more)
Sống sót / Survival
In this article for the Daily Bruin, Kristie-Valerie Hoang interviews…(read more)
Victims of War, and Now Victims of the Trump Administration
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Eric Tang discuss the deportation of…(read more)
He portrays a fragmented Vietnam and refugee life in the United States
Maria Edström reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for…(read more)
General Education S2E14: High Frequency: Viet Thanh Nguyen
On the last episode of General Education by Daily Trojan,…(read more)
I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, talks about immigration in America and his experiences as a Vietnamese refugee in this essay for TIME. Love…(read more)
Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Wesley Yang’s collection of essays, The…(read more)
Could Asian-Americans Turn Orange County Blue?
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Asian-American influence in Orange County for…(read more)
Bill Ruehlmann: In “The Displaced,” we see immigrants, see ourselves
Bill Ruehlmann reviews The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen for…(read more)
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