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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)
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)
Everyone gets what they deserve in this Vietnam novel
This German review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer by Katharina Borchardt…(read more)
Learning to Listen from My Son
Originally published in the New York Times. LOS ANGELES — A…(read more)
Remembering One Another’s Inhumanity: On Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Vietnam War
This review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies and…(read more)
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writing About Refugees
In this interview for Aspen Words, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses…(read more)
The eyes silent to see the wound
Nguyen Vinh Nguyen reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen…(read more)
Nguyen Thanh Viet – Refugees
In this review for Tiếp Thị Thế Giới, Ngân Hà discusses…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen – 2017 AWP Book Fair
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees in this interview with…(read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer: Two Hearts in My Chest
Marius of Buch-Haltung reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Originally published on…(read more)
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