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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)
NOTHING EVER DIES: Vietnam and the Memory of War | By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nguyễn Thị Điểu reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory…(read more)
Paul Beatty In Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
In fall 2017, the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black…(read more)
READY TO READ THE MOST CELEBRATED AND BEST VIETNAM WAR BOOKS?
Tracy Sharpley reviews the best books about the Vietnam War…(read more)
‘Call Me a Refugee, Not an Immigrant’: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jon Weiner interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his identity as…(read more)
‘Call Me a Refugee, Not an Immigrant’: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jon Wiener of The Nation interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on refugee…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen Says The U.S. Could ‘Lose Its Soul’ With Migrant Family Separations
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the Drumpf administration’s zero tolerance immigration…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Power of Imagining & Building New Futures
Alexandra Da Dalt discusses the impact of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s…(read more)
THRILLERS IN DISGUISE: 10 Essential Literary Novels That Master Suspense
Debra Jo Immergut lists The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen…(read more)
BookCon 2018: Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Work of Empathy
Hannah Kushnick of Publisher’s Weekly features The Displaced: Refugee Writers on…(read more)
Frank Buckley Interviews
Frank Buckley interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for KTLA. The interview…(read more)
From refugee to Pulitzer-winning novelist
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Christiane Amanpour about his story,…(read more)
John Kelly’s Ancestors Wouldn’t Have Fit In Either
Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on John Kelly’s words about undocumented…(read more)
Ripping children from parents will shatter America’s soul
Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on the Attorney General’s statement of…(read more)
The blackface incidents at Cal Poly show why we need more education about racism
Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on the blackface incidents at Cal…(read more)
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