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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)
The Displaced: Refugee Writers Ariel Dorfman & Viet Thanh Nguyen on Migration, US Wars & Resistance
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviews Ariel Dorfman and Viet Thanh Nguyen…(read more)
CANON FODDER
Originally published in The Washington Post. Books by immigrants, foreigners…(read more)
“The Ark” Short Film
“The Ark,” is a short film written by Viet Thanh…(read more)
State of RE Podcast Episode 9: Viet Thanh Nguyen
This interview of Viet Thanh Nguyen by David Yang was…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen joins…(read more)
Introducing The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17…(read more)
April Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced is featured in The Millions list of…(read more)
Refugees, optimism and literary roots: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Mohsin Hamid in conversation
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Mohsin Hamid discuss the refugee crisis…(read more)
This refugee’s stories relatable to all Americans
Rege Behe, ahead of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s appearance at Carnegie…(read more)
61 unmissable books to read this spring
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced is listed in Stylist’s spring…(read more)
Ghosts of the road, spectres at the feast
This article originally published by The Economist discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new…(read more)
Humo Book Reviews: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Refugees”
The following mini book review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees was…(read more)
A Novelist’s Exuberant Love Letter to a Mexican-American Clan
Viet Thanh Nguyen reviews Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken…(read more)
Confessions of a “complicated” spy
This review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer by Nikos…(read more)
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