Voice of a refugee’s pain
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and his personal experiences in this interview for Strait Times. Pulitzer-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen draws on his early years as a refugee in the US to write his short story collection. Growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in California, author Viet Thanh Nguyen saw a sign in a […]
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, who appears in Santa Ana on Tuesday, discusses his journey as a writer
This is Part 2 of Peter Larsen’s interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Orange County Register. You can read Part 1 here. Even as a refugee child some 40 years ago, Viet Thanh Nguyen remembers loving the books he found everywhere in his first American hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “Some of my earliest memories […]
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen is a new voice for Vietnamese here
Peter Larsen interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Orange County Register. You can read about Part 2 of the interview here. Viet Thanh Nguyen is on the kind of roll any author might envy. “The Sympathizer,” his 2015 debut novel, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Last year his nonfiction work, “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam […]
Stories Behind The Refugees
SBTN and Hollywood First Look interview Viet Thanh Nguyen about The Refugees in this two-part interview. Part 1: Part 2:
Viet Thanh Nguyen on His Timely Collection, ’The Refugees’
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and his personal experiences as a refugee in this interview for KQED News. Viet Thanh Nguyen is an award-winning writer who grew up in San Jose after immigrating to the United States with his family in 1975 as a refugee fleeing the Communist-controlled country. He is a professor at the […]
Pulitzer Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on His New Book The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees with Sarah Begley in this interview for TIME. Viet Thanh Nguyen had a pretty spectacular 2016: his debut novel, The Sympathizer, about a Vietnamese double agent who goes to California after the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize after selling only 22,000 copies in hardcover. Thanks to that and other […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen on being a refugee and being unwanted
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and his experiences in this interview for KCRW with Amy Ta. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new book “The Refugees” is coming out at a time of heated national discussions around President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigrants and refugees coming to the United States. Nguyen, himself, is […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the refugees we don’t remember anymore
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees with Quang Tran in this interview for the America Magazine. When Viet Thanh Nguyen’s bold and mesmerizing debut novel The Sympathizer received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, it was an honor that took him by surprise. Having fled Vietnam in 1975 with his family at a young age, Nguyen was […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writers on Writing
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about The Refugees and his books with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett in this interview for KUCI. Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, is my guest for the entire hour. He talks about his new book of short stories, The Refugees, and his nonfiction book–the bookend to The Sympathizer—Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “The Refugees” says the Star Wars stories are relevant to our age, “where most people identify with the rebels but so many in fact are complicit with the Empire.” The following interview was originally published by The New York Times. What books are currently on your night stand? You mean my […]
Nguyen Thanh Viet, Pulitzer Prize 2016: “There is no single definition of Vietnamese”
Cam Ly interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview about his books and the Vietnamese identity for Nguoi Dothi. Một ngày đầu tháng 5.2016, nhà văn Nguyễn Thanh Việt bước lên bục giảng của hội trường khoa Anh ngữ Đại học tiểu bang California tại Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Mỉm cười nhìn hơn 300 khán giả […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Vietnamese Americans embody the contradictions of American history
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and the Vietnamese American community in this interview for Người-Việt. Ngồi trên ghế sofa trong phòng khách được trang trí rất hiện đại và tinh tế, Việt Thanh Nguyễn nhìn qua khung cửa sổ rộng ra con đường đối diện mà thường ngày xe nối đuôi nhau đậu dọc […]
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen “Never Stopped Being a Refugee”
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his books and the public’s view on refugees in this interview for Mother Jones. Here’s his theory on why we fear asylum-seekers. In a national Reuters poll released on January 31, 49 percent of respondents said they favored Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban.” (A subsequent Gallup poll showed 42 percent support.) This interview might shed some […]
War, Memory, and Vietnam: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Nothing Ever Dies and his personal experiences in this interview for the History News Network. The troubling weight of the past is especially evident when we speak of war and our limited ability to recall it. Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman, war remains with us and within us, impossible to […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his books and his writing process in this interview for The Writer. In fiction and nonfiction alike, this Pulitzer Prize winner aims to shed fresh light on war, race, culture, and, ultimately, our humanity. Viet Thanh Nguyen recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, The Sympathizer. Fiction writer, nonfiction […]
