Media
Videos
Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen on Seth Meyers discuss his experience as a refugee and why refugees are important for America
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Christiane Amanpour interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about immigration and refugees
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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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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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Downloads
Viet Thanh Nguyen 2014.12.20 (Image)
Head Shot Profile Photograph 2014.12.20
20141220VietNguyen.jpg – 10 MB
Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016.07.22 (Image)
Head Shot Profile Photograph 2016.07.22
20160722VietTNguyen.jpg – 18 MB
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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.
Viet-Nguyen-The-Refugees-2017-AWP-Book-Fair.mp4 – 110 MB
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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.
Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-The-Sympathizer-2.mp4 – 814 MB
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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.
Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-2015-National-Book-Festival.mp4 – 452 MB
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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.
Asian-American-Literature-Today-Viet-Thanh-Nguyen.mp4 – 421 MB
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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
Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-Yells-at-a-Hollywood-Bigwig.mp4 – 138 MB
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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
Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-The-Sympathizer-Memory-of-the-Vietnam-War.mp4 – 829 MB
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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.
Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-The-Sympathizer.mp4 – 394 MB
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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.
The-Heat-discusses-the-Vietnam-War-Pt1.mp4 – 209 MB
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.
Pulitzer-Prize-Winner-and-USC-Professor-Nguyen-Thanh-Viet-for-The-Sympathizer.mp4 – 262 MB
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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.
Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-The-Sympathizer-Memory-of-the-Vietnam-War.mp4 – 829 MB
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'The Sympathizer' by Viet Thanh Nguyen | Q&A by Amazon (Video)
Amazon's Q&A of 'The Sympathizer' by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The-Sympathizer-by-Viet-Thanh-Nguyen.mp4 – 52 MB
"The Displaced" Book Cover (Image)
"The Displaced" Book Cover
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"The Refugees" Book Cover (Image)
"The Refugees" Book Cover
TheRefugees-BookCover.jpg – 733 KB
"The Sympathizer" Paperback Book Cover (Image)
"The Sympathizer" Paperback Book Cover
TheSympathizer-Pulitzer-Paperback.jpg – 165 KB
The Sympathizer Book Cover (Image)
"The Sympathizer" Hard Book Cover
TheSympathizer-Hard-BookCover.jpg – 294 KB
"The Sympathizer" PBB UK edition Book Cover (Image)
"The Sympathizer" PBB UK edition Book Cover
TheSympathizer-PBB-UK-edition-BookCover.jpg – 5 MB
"Nothing Ever Dies" Book Cover (Image)
"Nothing Ever Dies" Book Cover
NothingEverDies-BookCover.jpg – 701 KB
"Transpacific Studies" Book Cover (Image)
"Transpacific Studies" Book Cover
TransPacificStudies-BookCover.jpg – 1 MB
