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  Chicken of the Sea

  From the playful mind of Viet’s then 5-year old son Ellison came the story for Chicken of the Sea, about chickens who become pirates. Viet elaborated on Ellison’s idea, while Thi Bui and her 13-year old son Hien illustrated this fowl epic.

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  The Displaced

  Powerful dispatches from seventeen refugee writers who shed light on the individual lives behind current headlines.

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  The Refugees

  A collection of perfectly formed stories exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.

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  Nothing Ever Dies

  “Beautifully written, powerfully argued, thoughtful, provocative.”—Marilyn B. Young, author of The Vietnam Wars.

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  The Sympathizer

  The Sympathizer is a spy thriller, historical novel and black comedy that Maxine Hong Kingston calls “a magnificent feat of storytelling.”

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  Race and Resistance

  A study of how literature has grappled with the place of Asian Americans in the United States since the late 19th century.

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  Transpacific Studies

  Cutting-edge essays about the flows of people, ideas, and commerce across the Pacific. Transpacific Studies names an exciting new field.

Viet is the editor for diaCRITICS, the leading blog for Vietnamese and diasporic arts, culture and politics. Take a look.

Viet is also the co-director of DVAN., the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, which promotes the work of Vietnamese and diasporic artists.

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. Grove/Atlantic published his novel The Sympathizer in 2015 (winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize), and will publish his short story collection The Refugees in 2017. He also wrote Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016), finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Full bio here.

December 5, 2020
USC PAM Event: Southeast Asian Refugee Narratives

Online Event

December 9, 2020
Monuments Project: Expanding the American Story

Online Event

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
404D Taper Hall
Department of English
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354
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For review copies or bookstore events, contact publicity@groveatlantic.com for The Sympathizer or The Refugees and Margaux Leonard of Harvard University Press for Nothing Ever Dies

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To invite Viet to do a reading or lecture, please contact Kevin Mills of the The Tuesday Agency, 404 East College St. Suite 408, Iowa City, Iowa 52240, (319) 338-5640 or kevin@tuesdayagency.com

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