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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)
The Making of Asian America is a Stirring Chronicle Long Overdue
Viet Thanh Nguyen reviews Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian…(read more)
NY Times Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant
The New York Times first reviewed The Sympathizer in April,…(read more)
Late Night Live: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Vietnamese American Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his debut novel ,…(read more)
The Sympathizer Makes the First Novel Prize Short List
The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize is awarded to the…(read more)
Nancy Pearl’s Not Kidding: This Is A Must-Read
Nancy Pearl and Marcie Sillman discuss The Sympathizer on KUOW’s…(read more)
The Sympathizer Makes Mid-Year Best Novel Lists
The Sympathizer has critics everywhere buzzing. A highly praised cerebral…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Sympathizer’: Compelling, Original Take on Vietnam War
Dan DeLuca of the Philadelphia Inquirer reviews The Sympathizer. From…(read more)
Historical Novel Society Reviews The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer, is reviewed by…(read more)
The Stranger’s Voice
Karl Ashoka Britto reviews The Sympathizer for Public Books. The Sympathizer,…(read more)
Tom’s Book Club: Viet Nguyen at Chevalier’s Books
For the next installment of Tom’s Book Club, we will…(read more)
Book Review: “The Sympathizer” — The Vietnam War, Split in Two
Harvey Blume reviews The Sympathizer for The Arts Fuse. In this…(read more)
Anger in the Asian American Novel: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Paul Tran sits down with Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of…(read more)
For Readers, Writing Is a Process of ‘Emotional Osmosis’
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses how his novel The Sympathizer is the…(read more)
The Rumpus Reviews The Sympathizer
Amina Gautier reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer for…(read more)
For Readers, Writing Is a Process of ‘Emotional Osmosis’
The author Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses how his novel The…(read more)
A Different Kind of War Novel – Talking to Viet Thanh Nguyen, Author of “The Sympathizer”
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Chris Schluep of the Amazon…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Anger in the Asian American Novel
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of bestselling novel The Sympathizer talks with…(read more)
Briefly Noted: The Sympathizer
The Sympathizer is reviewed in The New Yorker‘s ‘Briefly Noted’…(read more)
‘The Sympathizer’ Is A Masterful Debut
Sarah Bagby from KMUW, Wichita’s NPR Station, reviews The Sympathizer.…(read more)
Moral Quandaries in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer
Bob Douglas of Critics At Large reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s…(read more)
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