Tag: afghanistan

Al Jazeera | Pulitzer winner Nguyen to Al Jazeera: US repeats Vietnam mistakes in Afghanistan and Palestine

April 30, 2025

In an interview with Al Jazeera marking Saigon’s 50th anniversary, Viet Thanh Nguyen—USC professor and Pulitzer winner for The Sympathizer—recalled arriving in America as a 1975 child refugee. The Vietnamese-American

NPR Throughline | All Wars Are Fought Twice

March 24, 2022

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. This week on Throughline, we want to

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Amanpour

August 25, 2021

Viet Thanh Nguyen and Khaled Hosseini share their refugee insights regarding Afghan refugees and the parallels to Vietnam. Award-winning novelists Khaled Hosseini and Viet Thanh Nguyen are both refugees themselves