Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In the days before smartphones and personalized feeds, every family had their regular shows they watched on the living room TV. Some sat down to watch the nightly news, others
Long before Viet Thanh Nguyen became a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, he was one of thousands of Vietnamese refugee kids who grew up in San José during the 1970s and ’80s. On evenings and weekends,
Betty Duong, Santa Clara County Supervisor, poses for a photo, at the Santa Clara County Administration Building, in San José on April 3, 2025. (Gina Castro/KQED) Betty Duong said that everyone she
Listen to it Here Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the United States as a 4-year-old refugee after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. His family eventually settled in
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
A Tennessee school board last week voted to remove the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel Maus from an 8th grade course on the Holocaust. And that’s just one of many examples
April 30th marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Viet did a number of interviews, including this one with writers Andrew Lam and Aimee Phan. They
Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks with other Vietnamese-American writers on KQED’s Forum, hosted by Michael Krasny. Listen to the full interview here or read the transcript below. Forty years ago Thursday,