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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)
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)
Remembering Refugees’ Stories
Jaehun Lee of BC’s student newspaper The Heights reflects on Viet Thanh…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Going Public
Author, scholar, and MLA member Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke with…(read more)
Just Buffalo’s BABEL: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Lizzie Finnegan reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Fies: Vietnam and…(read more)
Man of two minds
This review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer by Robert…(read more)
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