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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)
REMEMBERING VIETNAM, IN FICTION AND FACT
Viet Thanh Nguyen sits down with historian Jon Weiner to…(read more)
Viet on NPR’s All Things Considered
Arun Rath of NPR’s All Things Considered Weekend edition interviewed…(read more)
KPFK: Remembering Vietnam in Fiction and in Fact
Viet Nguyen speaks with Jon Weiner, host of the KPFK…(read more)
Booklist Gives The Sympathizer Starred Review
Booklist Online‘s Bryce Christensen gave Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel…(read more)
‘The Sympathizer:’ A Double Life in Vietnam and in America
The Seattle Times‘ David Takami reviews The Sympathizer. Protagonists in…(read more)
“The Sympathizer” Offers Fresh Look at Vietnam War
Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Madeleine Brand, host of…(read more)
Voices from Vietnam
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s first novel explores the Vietnam War through…(read more)
Viet in a video conversation with his editor, Peter Blackstock
Check out Viet talking with his brilliant editor, Peter Blackstock,…(read more)
A Dark, Funny—and Vietnamese—Look at the War
NPR’s Arun Rath interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for the radio…(read more)
Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Author of The Sympathizer
Evelyn Ch’ien interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on his debut novel,…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen Tackles War’s Aftermath in The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Jessica Gelt for the…(read more)
The Sympathizer Book Review: An Ambivalent Look at the Vietnam War
Veronica An of Dumpling Magazine reviews The Sympathizer. “Sympathizer” is…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen: The TNB Self-Interview
Viet Thanh Nguyen interviews himself for The Nervous Breakdown’s fiction…(read more)
Bloom – Q&A With Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Terry Hong, writer of BookDragon,…(read more)
The Omnivoracious Interview with Viet on The Sympathizer
Viet talks with Omnivoracious about some of his personal history and…(read more)
“Dark and Exciting Debut”: Wall Street Journal on the Sympathizer
The Wall Street Journal calls Viet’s novel a “dark and…(read more)
12 Modern Classics That Will Stand the Test of Time
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer gets reviewed by Kirkus Reviews and is featured on…(read more)
The Amazon Book Review – An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Debut Author of The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Sara Nelson, the Editorial…(read more)
JFK and the Diem Assassination: Not Exactly a Profile in Courage
David Wilson praises Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new novel The Sympathizer.…(read more)
Win a signed first edition of The Sympathizer!
Viet is the editor of diaCRITICS, the leading online source…(read more)
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