Tag: displacement

KQED | Viet Thanh Nguyen Explores Memory, Family and Selfhood in ‘A Man of Two Faces’

October 26, 2023

KQED talks to Nguyen about the intersection of art, memory and displacement, both physical and metaphysical. (Photo credit Hopper Stone, SMPSP) When does memory begin? That’s the question Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Viet Thanh Nguyen: ‘I always felt displaced no matter where I was’

March 6, 2021

Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with Ashish Ghadiali about following up The Sympathizer with The Committed for the Guardian. The Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s second novel, The Committed, is the sequel

In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees,’ wistfulness is an anthem of displacement

March 9, 2017

Karen Long reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees. Originally published by The Los Angeles Times. In a short time, Viet Thanh Nguyen has encircled the American literary consciousness: first with