Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist best known for his debut novel The Sympathizer, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. His latest
By Arjuna Keshvani-Ham I’d given up on interviewing Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyên after receiving an automated response to a lengthy email. Apologies. Viet is declining all interview opportunities for
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar
Nonfiction: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “To Save and to Destroy” grew out of a series of lectures at Harvard. By May-lee Chai For the Minnesota Star TribuneMarch 31, 2025 at 9:00AM
For twenty-five years, more than 125 hardworking and distinguished judges have had a panoramic view of non-fiction publishing. They have recognised works of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel,
Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (A Man of Two Faces) discussed his memoir about life as a Vietnam refugee growing up in America, and took calls from a national audience for
Former associate editor Andrew Koenig sat down with Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss his memoir A Man of Two Faces, the themes of his Charles Eliot Norton lecture series “To Save
The Pulitzer Prize-winner on his dual identity, on memory and forgetting, and his memoir, A Man of Two Faces for The Hindustan Times What is the significance of the words
H.M.A Leow writes about memoirs written by Southeast Asian refugees for for DVAN DiaCRITICS (Editor’s Note: This essay explores, in part, the work of Viet Thanh Nguyen, who is the
Andrea Brody interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on his Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel, The Sympathizer— now being adapted into an HBO series, and his new memoir for KCRW One of the most-watched
Acclaimed author Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his memoir, A Man of Two Faces, and reflects on the upcoming TV adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer. With former Newshour
“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces”, begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer, the internationally acclaimed bestseller that was recently adapted into an
Is the near-universal game of “cowboys and Indians” just positive propaganda for genocide? When a Vietnamese-American watches ‘Apocalypse Now’, does he identify with the victim or perpetrator? As the Pulitzer
We last spoke with Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen nine years ago about his debut novel The Sympathizer, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His new memoir