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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)
I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It
Posted on November 15, 2018 | Leave a commentViet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, talks about immigration in America and his experiences as a Vietnamese refugee in this essay for TIME. Love it or leave it. Have you heard someone say this? Or have you said it? Anyone who has heard these five words ...(read more)
Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All
Posted on June 25, 2020 | Leave a commentViet Thanh Nguyen writes about the complexity of the term Asian-American, its experience, and its position as the model minority in this piece for Time Magazine. A musician and a girl in Topaz Internment Camp in Utah, July 1945 Apic/Getty Images The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turne ...(read more)
16 BEAUTIFUL, COMPELLING, AND POIGNANT BOOKS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS
Nicole Young recognizes The Refugees as one of Book Riot’s…(read more)
Les Réfugiés
Anne-Sophie Rouveloux reviews The Refugees for PAGE magazine.(read more)
Une Diaspora D’Auteurs
K.E. reviews The Refugees for Le Noveau magazine.(read more)
Les Réfugiés
Emilie Hyunh reviews The Refugees for KOI magazine.(read more)
La guerre se joue deux fois
Eric Dussert reviews The Refugees for Le Matricule des Anges…(read more)
Continuer à Vivre
Jean-Pierre Han reviews Nothing Ever Dies for Les Lettres Francaises.(read more)
La Sélection
Philippe Chevilley, Olivier De Bruyn, Thierry Gandillot, Henri Gibler, and…(read more)
« Les Réfugiés » : exilés en Amérique
Philippe Chevilley writes about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for…(read more)
Announcing Viet Nguyen and Walter Mosley in Conversation
At the Peltz Theater on September 5th at 8pm, Author…(read more)
à paraître bientôt
I.M.-C. reviews The Refugees for Sud Ouest magazine.(read more)
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen talks Asian representation, life after a Pulitzer
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Rappler about Asian representation in…(read more)
Author! Author!
Philip Cu-Unjieng writes in The Philippine Star about the unlikely…(read more)
Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen finally visits PH, ‘the country I most wanted to visit
Philippine Daily Inquirer writes about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s relationship with…(read more)
Memories and dark times: Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen emphasizes power of storytelling
Johanna L. Añes- de la Cruz talks with Viet Thanh…(read more)
Close the Curtain on ‘Miss Saigon’
Opinion | Close the Curtain on ‘Miss Saigon’ – The…(read more)
Fighting Words
Robert Ito spotlights Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Los Angeles…(read more)
De refugiado vietnamita a premio Pulitzer, el escritor que abrazó su pasado traumático
Viet Thanh Nguyen, de origen vietnamita, reflexiona sobre la necesidad…(read more)
In Trump’s vision of a white America, immigrants should be grateful and servile
What “go back” really means. Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about…(read more)
In Trump’s vision of a white America, immigrants should be grateful and servile
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the meaning and effects of Trump’s…(read more)
Watch Keynote Address by Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Memories Studies Association
Viet Thanh Nguyen delivers his Keynote Address at the Third…(read more)
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