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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)
Viet Receives American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
The American Council of Learned Societies granted Viet a research…(read more)
Fatherland: A Short Story
“Fatherland” was originally published in Narrative Magazine, Spring 2011, where…(read more)
Viet wins Mellon Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students
The USC Mellon Mentoring Awards honor individual faculty for helping…(read more)
Viet Receives $10,000 Investing in Artists Grant for Artistic Innovation
Viet was selected as one of the twenty-six recipients who…(read more)
On (Not) Being Vietnamese
Tet passed recently, and Vietnamese holidays always make me think…(read more)
Look at Me: A Short Story
“Look at Me” was originally published on The Good Men Project on…(read more)
War, Memory and the Future
“War, Memory and the Future” was originally published in The…(read more)
Trịnh Công Sơn, Movie Star: A Review of Đất Khổ (Land of Sorrows)
I didn’t know Trinh Cong Son was in a movie…(read more)
This Is All I Choose To Tell: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud’s New Book
I was twenty-one years old when I started studying for…(read more)
Eye-Level: The Photographs of Jamie Maxtone-Graham
I saw Jamie Maxtone-Graham’s work long before I met him.…(read more)
Experimental Vietnamese Music
So who says that Vietnamese music is all about sad…(read more)
Luke Nguyen in Viet Nam: Vietnamese Cuisine Goes Global
Vietnamese cuisine continues its slow ascent onto the gourmet charts.…(read more)
Viet Wins $5,000 Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Grant for An Other War Memorial
In a recent course on the American War in Viet…(read more)
Viet Becomes a Luce Foundation Fellow at the Asian Cultural Council
The Asian Cultural Council awarded Viet and his colleague, Sam…(read more)
The Americans: A Short Story
“The Americans” was originally published on the Chicago Tribune, where it…(read more)
Arthur Arellano: A Short Story
“Arthur Arellano” was originally published in Narrative Magazine, Spring 2010. For…(read more)
Singer Cathy Nguyen Featured in New York Times
My colleague at USC, Josh Kun, has an article in the New York…(read more)
Grunts vs. Gooks: Vietnam War Literature and Marlantes’ Matterhorn
Matterhorn, a novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes…(read more)
Paradise and Prisons: New York Times on the Con Dao Islands
The beach at Con Son island Vietnam is apparently going…(read more)
Bui Thac Chuyen’s Choi Voi (Adrift)
I just saw Bui Thac Chuyen’s film Choi Voi (Adrift) at the…(read more)
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