AMERICAN MASTERS PODCAST – Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses growing up in the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam, and how writing and reading helped him cope with this difficult experience in this episode of the American Masters Podcast. Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses growing up in the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam, and how writing and reading helped him […]
PEN Out Loud: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maaza Mengiste and Lev Golinkin
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maaza Mengiste, and Lev Golinkin discuss The Displaced, an essay collection by refugee writers at the Strand Bookstore. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), and authors Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze) and Lev Golinkin (A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka) discuss the critically acclaimed anthology The […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen Says The U.S. Could ‘Lose Its Soul’ With Migrant Family Separations
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy on NPR with host Scott Simon. Interview audio found here. Read the transcript below: SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy has become one of its most controversial. The Federal Government has separated hundreds of children from their parents as they increase […]
BookCon 2018: Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Work of Empathy
Hannah Kushnick of Publisher’s Weekly features The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives for BookCon 2018. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, a startling anthology of essays by various authors, was the brainchild of Abrams executive editor Jamison Stoltz. He was, according to the anthology’s editor, Viet Thanh Nguyen, “moved by the protests against the […]
Frank Buckley Interviews
Frank Buckley interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for KTLA. The interview video can be seen on the KTLA website. Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of “The Sympathizer,” a spy novel set in the chaos of 1975 Saigon for which Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Viet was born in Ban Me Thuot, Vietnam, and […]
“The Ark” Short Film
“The Ark,” is a short film written by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It picks up after his celebrated novel “The Sympathizer,” continuing a complex and deeply intimate tale of war, displacement, and survival. It can also be seen on the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center website. Credits: Director and Artist – Matt Huynh Writer and Narrator […]
State of RE Podcast Episode 9: Viet Thanh Nguyen
This interview of Viet Thanh Nguyen by David Yang was featured on the State of RE Podcast, which can be heard on iTunes. David Yang: The State of RE Podcast is about the state of relationships, relationships of all aspects of your life, so check it out; where we break it down for you … David […]
April Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced is featured in The Millions list of the most anticipated books for the month of April. We wouldn’t dream of abandoning our vast semi–annual Most Anticipated Book Previews, but we thought a monthly reminder would be helpful (and give us a chance to note titles we missed the first time around). Here’s what we’re looking out […]
This refugee’s stories relatable to all Americans
Rege Behe, ahead of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s appearance at Carnegie Music Hall on April 9, discusses the author’s experiences as a refugee for The Tribune-Review. Viet Thanh Nguyen earned a Pulitzer Prize for “The Sympathizers,” his debut novel. His second book “The Refugees,” a collection of short stories, also was critically acclaimed. These books not only […]
Remembering Refugees’ Stories
Jaehun Lee of BC’s student newspaper The Heights reflects on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s appearance at the college as part of the Lowell Humanities Series. Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, spoke on Wednesday evening as part of […]
A Vietnamese haunting in America
Andy Kerstetter of Idaho Mountain Express discusses The Sympathizer and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s experiences as a young refugee. No matter what he did, Viet Thanh Nguyen has always felt a pervasive sense of haunting—not so much like he was plagued by actual ghosts, but rather the specter of the past, particularly the Vietnam War and the fact that he […]
Uprooted by living souls, despite everything
Giovanni Leti reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Lucia Libri. “I rifugiati” di Viet Thanh Nguyen è una raccolta di racconti meno sperimentali e crudi del suo romanzo “Il simpatizzante”: storie di migranti sradicati e frastornati, ma non solo, che fanno i conti con la propria identità e con la perdita, storie minime ma potentissime […]
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 Nguyen describes himself as “numb and shocked” after winning a MacArthur “genius grant.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sympathizer,” his debut novel, was cited by the MacArthur Foundation for “challenging popular depictions […]
This ‘Refugee’ author explains what it’s like to live between worlds
Viet Thanh Nguyen joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his stories about living between worlds and being haunted by the past on PBS NewsHour. JUDY WOODRUFF: Now the latest addition to the NewsHour Bookshelf. It’s “The Refugees,” a short story collection from last year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Jeffrey Brown talked with Viet Thanh […]
Casualties of war: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Priyanka Kumar reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Originally published by Pasatiempo from The New Mexican. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel, The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015), is notable for the density of its first-person voice. The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, does not spend much time contextualizing anything for the reader. He simply throws us into […]
