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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: Obviously, this is a book ab ...(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)
Complete fiction: why ‘the short story renaissance’ is a myth
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees is listed as a notable…(read more)
Uses Excel to ensure his reading is diverse
Amy Sutherland discusses reading habits with Viet Thanh Nguyen in…(read more)
Uses Excel to ensure his reading is diverse
This interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen ahead of his appearance…(read more)
Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Talks Parking Lots and Refugees at The Egyptian
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer and refugees at The…(read more)
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the struggles of being a refugee in America
David Canfield of Entertainment Weekly offers an exclusive excerpt of Viet Thanh…(read more)
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the struggles of being a refugee in America
Entertainment Weekly discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s role as editor for…(read more)
Spies Like Us: A Professor Undercover in the Literary Marketplace
Timothy K. August discusses The Sympathizer and other novels by…(read more)
Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen for Literature Interpretation Theory (LIT)
This interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen was conducted by Ruby…(read more)
Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ruby Perlmutter discusses The Sympathizer and other works with Viet…(read more)
Tellus Folio Review: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Refugees”
Marisa Cecchetti reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Tellus Folio. Ci sono…(read more)
Nguyen, Soll named University Professors
USC Dornsife faculty members Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jacob Soll…(read more)
How Viet Thanh Nguyen found his voice
Colleen Walsh writes about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s discussion about identity, politics,…(read more)
IN CONVERSATION WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN: ON DIASPORA & CULTURE AS PLURALITY
Dao Strom discusses the founding of diaCRITICS and the Vietnamese…(read more)
2017-2018 AWARDS WINNERS
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees wins Honorable Mention in the…(read more)
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