From refugee to Pulitzer
In this interview for L’actualite, Danielle Laurin discusses The Sympathizer with Viet Thanh Nguyen. Pour la première fois depuis la création de cette prestigieuse distinction littéraire aux États-Unis, il y a près d’un siècle, un Américain d’origine vietnamienne est le lauréat du Pulitzer de fiction. Avec ce premier roman, Le sympathisant, tout juste traduit en français (Belfond), […]
“The Vietnam War continues to characterize US action”
Rodion Ebbighausen discusses The Sympathizer with Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview for Deutsche Well. Viet Thanh Nguyen hat einen ungewöhnlichen Roman zum Vietnamkrieg vorgelegt. Er bricht mit sämtlichen westlichen Erwartungen. Die Deutsche Welle traf den Pulitzer-Preisträger zum Gespräch in Berlin. Viet Thanh Nguyens Roman “Der Sympathisant” ist das Geständnis eines namenlosen Erzählers, der sich selbst […]
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen: “Trump would hate the book!”
In this interview for Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Joachim Scholl discusses The Sympathizer and the Vietnamese perspective with Viet Thanh Nguyen. Für “Der Sympathisant” hat Viet Thanh Nguyen den Pulitzerpreis erhalten. Jetzt erscheint der Roman über die Auswirkungen des Vietnamkriegs auf Deutsch. Heute kenne man nur die amerikanische Version des Krieges, sagt Nguyen. Sein Roman soll einen anderen […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Piero Casoli discusses The Sympathizer with Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview for the Macina Magazine. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Premio Pulitzer 2016 per la Narrativa con il romanzo “The Sympathizer” (2015), professore universitario di “English and American Studies and Ethnicity” nella prestigiosa University of Southern California di Los Angeles (U.S.A.) Il 18 aprile 2016, alla Columbia University di Broadway, Pulitzer […]
The Sympathisant: how Americans deal with the Vietnam War
Ingrid Hoogervorst reviews The Essex Monster by Sarah Perry, Honkvast by Steffie van den Oord, and The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by NPO Radio1. In de Nieuwsshow bespreekt een recensent elke week drie boeken in de Boekenrubriek. Deze week is de beurt aan schrijfster Ingrid Hoogervorst. Hoogervorst studeerde Nederlands en Cultuurfilosofie en was van 1979 tot 1991 lerares Nederlands. […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: the Vietnam War and the Opposition of Perspectives
Miguel Fernandes Duarte reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by Comunidade Cultura e Arte. A Guerra do Vietname, como lhe chamam os Americanos, ou a Guerra dos Americanos, como lhe chamam os Vietnamitas, opôs o Vietname do Norte, apoiado fundamentalmente pela União Soviética e pela República Popular da China, ao Vietname do Sul, […]
King Cong
Graa Boomsma reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by De Groene Amsterdammer. In de nieuwe Vietnam-roman van Viet Thanh Nguyen zijn het nu eens de Amerikanen met een bijrol. Dit biedt een nieuwe kijk op de oorlog alsook ‘een fascinerend literair labyrint’. In de Nederlandse literatuur raakt met Alfred Birney’s niemand ontziende De tolk […]
The Silent Vietnamese
This German interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen was originally published by Focus Magazine.
El Imparcial Review – Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer
Paulo Garcia Conde reviews The Sympathizer By Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by El Imparcial. Traducción de Javier Calvo. Seix Barral, 2017. Barcelona. 22 €. Libro electrónico: 11,99 €. Con esta novela, el escritor vietnamita afincado en Estados Unidos se alzó con el Premio Pulitzer 2016. Una visión tan novedosa como estimulante, de jugosa lectura, […]
The restless memories of Viet Thanh Nguyen
João Céu e Silva reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by Diario de Noticias. É pouco habitual nos romances que vão surgindo nas livrarias existir a tensão que O Simpatizante provoca no leitor. A guerra que dá início ao romance O Simpatizante teve início no ano de 1946, com o fim da […]
Recommended ICON reading: ‘The sympathizer’, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Inigo Lopez Palacios reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by El Pais. Estás ante la primera gran novela estadounidense sobre Vietnam escrita por un vietnamita de nacimiento: la historia sobre un topo del Viet Cong ¿Otra vez la guerra de Vietnam? Sí pero no: es la historia de un agente doble, un capitán […]
Yesterday’s wars continued
Uzair M. Younas reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published on The News on Sunday. While the war in Vietnam has ended and Vietnamese refugees and immigrants have found their place in America; Syrians, Iraqis, and Afghans are today’s silent performers. “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: between two worlds
In this interview for Rai Cultura, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer. Video Interview Il Capitano al centro del romanzo Il simpatizzante di Viet Thanh Nguyen, tradotto da Luca Briasco per Neri Pozza, vive immerso nella duplicità: in primo luogo perché fa la talpa al servizio dei Viet Cong tra i vietnamiti filoamericani, poi perché l’America dove […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen a «Letterature» Lasciare casa, per trovarne una
Luca Briasco for Corriere Della Sera sits down with Viet Thanh Nguyen at the International Literature Festival of Rome Il testo inedito che il premio Pulitzer leggerà giovedì 13 luglio alla XVI edizione del Letterature Festival Internazionale di Roma, ideato e diretto da Maria Ida Gaeta. Pubblichiamo il testo che lo scrittore Viet Thanh Nguyen […]
“Do not believe Coppola the real Vietnam I’ll tell it”
Annarita Briganti discusses The Sympathizer with Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview for La Repubblica. DA PROFUGO a Premio Pulitzer. La storia di Viet Thanh Nguyen, classe ‘71, primo vietnamita- americano a vincere il prestigioso riconoscimento, è un romanzo a parte. L’autore di Il simpatizzante (Neri Pozza, traduzione dall’inglese di Luca Briasco), quarantamila copie vendute solo […]
