Viet Thanh Nguyen reads a letter to his father.
Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen on Seth Meyers talk about the history of anti-Asian violence in the United States.
Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen on Seth Meyers discuss his experience as a refugee and why refugees are important for America
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In this video essay, Viet talks about his parents and their struggle on CBS This Morning.
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks about The Committed for CBS This Morning.
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Christiane Amanpour interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about immigration and refugees
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Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with DemocracyNow! about how U.S. foreign policy creates refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with DemocracyNow! on how anti-Asian is rooted in US colonialism
Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss his debut novel, The Sympathizer with Charlie Rose
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Roxane Gay and Viet Thanh Nguyen at St. Paul’s Church
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Asian Health Services profiles Viet, in a video directed by Tony Nguyen.
Viet and his son Ellison and Thi Bui and her son Hien discuss their collaboration, the children’s book Chicken of the Sea.
Watch Matty Huynh’s “The Ark,” a short film narrated by Viet Thanh Nguyen and based on the opening of The Committed, his sequel to The Sympathizer
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Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss The Sympathizer at the 2016 AWP Conference
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Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen at the 2016 Wisconsin Book Festival on C-SPAN
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Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen and others speak about refugee crises on C-SPAN
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Watch “Past to Present: The Echoes of War,” Viet Thanh Nguyen and others speak about war and history at the 2016 LA Times Book Festival
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Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with filmmakers John Sayles and Vilsoni Hereniko
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Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Jeffrey Brown about his latest novel, 'The Refugees' at the 2017 AWP Book Fair.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen reads 'The Sympathizer' at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses "The Sympathizer" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reads from his new novel, "The Sympathizer," and participates in a moderated discussion with Mimi Khùc of the University of Maryland at the Library of Congress.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen reads his novel 'The Sympathizer' at the Asian American Writers' Workshop
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Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Center for Fiction's 2015 First Novel Prize for 'The Sympathizer' at the Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner in December, 2015
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Viet Thanh Nguyen reads and discusses his book, 'The Sympathizer' at the Harvard Book Store.
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It's been 40 years since the fall of Saigon and the official end of the Vietnam War. But for many Vietnamese, the wounds have yet to heal. The Heat looks back at the U.S. evacuation as well as Vietnam's recovery and reconciliation.
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Pulitzer Prize Winner & USC Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his debut novel 'The Sympathizer' on The Victoria to Uyen Show.
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Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his award-winning novel, The Sympathizer (2015), and his new book, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016) with Professor Jing Tsu, Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies and Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature, at the Asian American Colloquium and Event Series hosted by Yale University.
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Amazon's Q&A of 'The Sympathizer' by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Viet Thanh Nguyen in Festival America From September 21-25, Viet Thanh Nguyen will be participating in Festival America in Vincennes, France. This year, “Voices of America” will celebrate its 20th anniversary, and feature around 70 authors from North America in hundreds of lectures and panel discussions. Since 2002, this biannual festival has been dedicated to… (read more)
The jury of the California Book Awards has selected this year’s Gold and Silver Medal winners for its 2022 awards. One of the oldest and most distinguished literary award programs in the nation will be holding a virtual Awards ceremony on June 6, at 6 p.m for the Common Wealth Club. SILVER MEDALS FICTIONThe Committed, Viet Thanh… (read more)
Viet Thanh Nguyen will be conferred a Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa at the Commencement ceremony for Franklin & Marshall College. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and numerous other awards. His most recent publication is the sequel to The Sympathizer, The Committed. His other books are a short story collection, The Refugees; Nothing… (read more)
