MONTHLY ARCHIVES : October, 2017

The Awl: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen

An interview with Bryan Washington regarding refugee literature and American politics. Interview originally published on The Awl. This conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen took place a…(read more)

Image credits to Getty Images. USC professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen has been named a 2017 MacArthur fellow.

Longreads: An Interview with Macarthur ‘Genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen on Longreads

2017 MacArthur fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses questions of justice, diversity in literature, and empathy across cultures in an interview with Catherine Cusick. Interview…(read more)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, MacArthur fellow

A refugee writer wins a ‘genius grant’ for his depictions of the displaced

Carol Hills and Marco Werman of Public Radio International interview Viet Thanh Nguyen as a recipient of a MacArthur grant. Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh…(read more)

MacArthur Foundation Names ‘Genius Grant’ Winners for 2017

Viet Thanh Nguyen is one of seven 2017 MacArthur Fellows featured in The Wall Street Journal in October 2017. When told that they’ve been selected for…(read more)

Viet Nguyen Awarded MacArthur Fellowship

The MacArthur Foundation has awarded Viet Thanh Nguyen with a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship for his work as a fiction writer and cultural critic. In…(read more)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, September 23, 2017

Viet Nguyen wins prestigious MacArthur Foundation award

An article originally posted for USC News, Susan Bell covers Viet Thanh Nguyen on becoming a 2017 MacArthur Grant recipient. The “genius grant” honors…(read more)

KCRW’s Press Play: LA’s Viet Thanh Nguyen and Yuval Sharon on becoming MacArthur ‘Geniuses’

Viet Thanh Nguyen wins MacArthur’s Genius Grant – a podcast interview by KCRW. Four of the MacArthur fellows this year are from Los Angeles.…(read more)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, September 23, 2017

MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winners step into the spotlight: ‘Is this really happening?’

Following the reveal of the 2017 MacArthur Fellows, Washington Post’s Caitlin Gibson collects the reactions of Viet Thanh Nguyen and other fellows. When the call…(read more)

Image credits to Oriana Koren for The New York Times. The novelist and professor Viet Thanh Nguyen at his home in Los Angeles.

MacArthur Foundation Names 2017 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners

Originally written for the New York Times, the following is an excerpt about Viet Thanh Nguyen from Jennifer Schuessler’s New York Times article on the…(read more)

Here Are The 2017 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners

Colin Dwyers of NPR puts together a list of the 24 recipients of the 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant, one fellow being Viet Thanh Nguyen.…(read more)