Viet Thanh Nguyen’s latest work is a nonfiction companion to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Nothing Ever Dies and the history of the Vietnam War in this interview for USC Dornsife. USC Dornisfe’s Viet Thanh Nguyen delivers an acclaimed nonfiction work on the Vietnam War that raises questions about the ethics of memory as he explores how different countries remember the conflict. In Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam […]
Charlie Rose Interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” with Charlie Rose. TRANSCRIPT Charlie Rose: Viet Thanh Nguyen is here. His debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It examines the Vietnam War through the eyes of its narrator, a mole for the Viet Cong embedded with the south Vietnamese […]
National Book Award Finalist Viet Thanh Nguyen Speaks Out on War, Capitalism and Donald Trump
Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Jeffrey Fleishman on his thoughts on celebrity culture, capitalism, and American imperialism. Originally published by the Los Angeles Times. A sense of the other seeps through Viet Thanh Nguyen’s work, a place where war and memory play like discordant whispers, and defining one’s identity, especially for an immigrant or a […]
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Discusses ‘The Sympathizer’ And His Escape From Vietnam
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Terry Gross, host of Fresh Air on NPR. Listen to the interview here or read the full transcript below. TRANSCRIPT TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. My guest is the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Viet Thanh Nguyen. His novel, […]
Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Talks Representation, Offers Advice
Author and Berkeley alumnus Viet Thanh Nguyen gets interviewed by Stacey Nguyen of The Daily Californian. Last Thursday, the UC Berkeley English department held a reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer with USC professor, novelist and UC Berkeley alumnus Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen sat down with The Daily Californian for an interview. Sporting […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Hiding in Plain Sight
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses reading ‘Invisible Man’ on The Thread with Kerri Miller. Listen to the full podcast on MPR News or read the transcript below. On The Thread podcast, books are just the beginning. Host Kerri Miller talks with comedians, scientists and other big thinkers about how books and reading have shaped their lives. […]
Taking Revenge Against Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his novel The Sympathizer on NPR’s To The Best of Our Knowledge. Listen to the full interview here or read the transcript below. Americans are still fighting over the legacy of the Vietnam War, but one perspective is missing: the Vietnamese experience. Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen provides a Vietnamese perspective. Here […]
BBC World News: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by Kasia Madera on BBC World News. The interview is available to watch below. Here is the transcript: Kasia Madera: Now, Viet Thanh Nguyen has won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his debut novel, The Sympathizer. It is an immigrant tale of a man of two […]
The Vietnam War, the American War
Viet Thanh Nguyen sits down with Ricardo Herrera Bandrich of the Los Angeles Review of Books to talk about his novel The Sympathizer. FOR SUBJECTS that loom large in history, literature, film, and nonfiction — such as the Vietnam War, known in Vietnam as the American War — it can be tough to find fresh […]
Past to Present: Echoes of War
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, speaks as one of the panelists for “Past to Present: The Echoes of War”, at the 2016 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Panelists also included Rita Gabis, author of A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for Truth; and Dawn […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen On The Tavis Smiley Show
The USC professor and author shares about his recent work Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War on PBS’s Tavis Smiley Show. Listen to the podcast here or read the full transcript below. Tavis Smiley: Good evening from Los Angeles. I’m Tavis Smiley. Tonight, a conversation with award-winning bestselling author and USC professor, […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen Reconciles Childhood Memories, History
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen is interviewed by David A. Maurer of The Daily Progress. Viet Thanh Nguyen was too young to retain reliable memories of the chaos and fear that compelled his parents to flee South Vietnam in 1975 with him and other family members. But the Vietnam War was a near-constant shadow that loomed on […]
Asian American Literature Today: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen reads The Sympathizer and discusses his novels in a Vietnamese American context with Mimi Khùc from the University of Maryland at the Library of Congress. Here is the transcript: Speaker 1: From the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Anya Creightney: Hi Everyone. This turnout is wonderful. We’re so happy to see […]
Growing Up in America
University professor and author Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his personal story of challenges and success. This interview was originally published by Maureen LittleJohn for Culture Magazin. Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the the United States with his family in 1975. He was four and his brother was ten. His parents opened a grocery store, their business […]
The Wheeler Column: Interview with BA and Ph.D Alum Viet Thanh Nguyen
Earlier this year, B.A. and Ph.D alumnus Viet Thanh Nguyen published his first novel, The Sympathizer, to great critical esteem. The novel, heralded by Maxine Hong Kingston as “(a) book that will go down in history as an important novel of the war in Vietnam,” has appeared on numerous best novels lists, including The New York Times […]
