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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 on 'The Refugees' at the 2017 AWP Book Fair (Video)

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 on 'The Sympathizer' | Politics and Prose (Video)

Viet Thanh Nguyen reads 'The Sympathizer' at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2015 National Book Festival at the Library of Congress (Video)

Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses "The Sympathizer" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

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Asian American Literature Today | Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Library of Congress (Video)

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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Viet Thanh Nguyen reads 'The Sympathizer' | Asian American Writers' Workshop (Video)

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' (Video)

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 discusses 'The Sympathizer' | Harvard Book Store (Video)

Viet Thanh Nguyen reads and discusses his book, 'The Sympathizer' at the Harvard Book Store.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the Vietnam War on “The Heat” (Video)

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 Viet Thanh Nguyen for 'The Sympathizer' | The Victoria to Uyen Show (Video)

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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Viet Thanh Nguyen on 'The Sympathizer' | AACES at Yale University (Video)

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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