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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)
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Writing to Re-member
Helen Scott interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about the refugee crisis,…(read more)
AMERICAN MASTERS PODCAST – Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses growing up in the U.S. as…(read more)
Hereafter, Faraway
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about his refugee experience in this…(read more)
Việt Thanh Nguyễn – Viết lách là sự thôi thúc từ bên trong
Anh Tram interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels and…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen – Writing is an urge from inside
Anh Trâm interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels, The…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen and the Vietnam wounds remained open
Renato Graziano reviews The Sympathizer and The Displaced by Viet…(read more)
25 Amazing Books by Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors You Need to Read
Mental Floss recognizes The Sympathizer as one of 25 notable…(read more)
A Reading by Viet Thanh Nguyen
With the support of Ithaca Welcomes Refugees, Jack Wang and…(read more)
A different view of the war in Vietnam: Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Book Fair
Chiara Manetti discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s remarks at the Turin…(read more)
The Pulitzer Prize Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Book Fair: “I am censored in Vietnam”
Manuela Marascio discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s remarks of the Vietnam…(read more)
INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN
Anna Lattanzi interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his writing and…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Ci riteniamo umani ma siamo tutti crudeli
Alessandro Martini and Maurizio Francesconi write about The Refugees for…(read more)
Struggling to find a place, refugee writers speak for themselves
Thy Vo discusses refugee writers and The Displaced by Viet…(read more)
PEN Out Loud: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maaza Mengiste and Lev Golinkin
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maaza Mengiste, and Lev Golinkin discuss The…(read more)
An interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Piper French interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his books, The…(read more)
VIET THANH NGUYEN: HOW NOT TO BORE YOUR AUDIENCE AT A READING
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses ways to engage the audience during…(read more)
Arrived – at what price? Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about Vietnamese refugees
Katharina Borchardt reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen in…(read more)
“Born In Vietnam But Made In America”: The Story Of A Pulitzer Prize Winning Vietnamese Refugee
Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Lieutenant Colonel David R.…(read more)
College admissions are corrupt because universities are. Here’s how to fix them.
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the college admissions scandal and solutions…(read more)
NOTHING EVER DIES
Sara Camaiora reviews Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Thanh Nguyen…(read more)
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