Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Refugees
Doug Fabrizio and Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss lives of refugees and the stories of war that they bring in this interview for RadioWest. Thursday, we’re talking about the lives of refugees with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen came to this country when he was four, and he says there’s a tendency to […]
In Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees,’ wistfulness is an anthem of displacement
Karen Long reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees. Originally published by The Los Angeles Times. In a short time, Viet Thanh Nguyen has encircled the American literary consciousness: first with his mind-bending 2015 novel “The Sympathizer,” then last year’s cultural history “Nothing Ever Dies” and now with eight short stories entitled “The Refugees.” Nguyen, the […]
THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN
Beverly Parayno interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about refugees, the Vietnamese community, and Nguyen’s books in this article for Rumpus. When I first learned that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and I shared the same hometown of San Jose, California, and that we both grew up there in the 1970s and ‘80s, I knew I […]
Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reads from Pulitzer novel and tells refugee stories in Salt Lake City
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and The Sympathizer with Ellen Fagg Weist in Salt Lake City. Pulitzer Prize winner’s fictions tell of the reality of being people of “two minds.” Viet Thanh Nguyen knows not many English professors find themselves chatting up Seth Meyers, as he did last month, clarifying the distinction between refugees […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen Tackles Issues of Race, Immigration, and Identity in ‘The Refugees’
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the inspiration for The Refugees and the current issue of refugees in America with the Dinner Party Download. The author tells us the true story that inspired his new collection and shares a few thoughts on why refugees can make Americans uncomfortable. Viet Thanh Nguyen‘s first novel “The Sympathizer” won […]
Review: Richly Told, And All-Too-Timely, Stores Of The Refugee Experience
Heather Scott Partington reviews ‘The Refugees’. Originally published in The National Book Review. *** Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new collection of short stories, The Refugees, is timely; its coincidental co-release with the president’s executive order on immigration underscores the importance of good writing about those seeking refuge from war-torn nations. And yet Nguyen, whose 2015 novel The Sympathizer won […]
The latest short stories are far from sweet
Tom Fleming reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’ and Ottessa Moshfegh’s collection of short stories. Originally published in The Spectator. Collections from Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ottessa Moshfegh are largely concerned with drug-addiction, vitiligo and dementia. Like his Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel, The Sympathisers, the stories in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees are set largely among the Vietnamese […]
What Comes After the Trauma of Fleeing: ‘The Refugees’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jasmine Lee Ehrhardt reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’. Originally published by ZYZZYVA, a San Francisco Journal of Arts and Letters. The Refugees (224 pages; Grove), the new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, consists of eight stories circling around the displacement caused by the Vietnam War. Though reviewers of the collection have tied the […]
‘The sympathizer’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen: a total work
Lorenzo Mazzoni reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by il Fatto Quotidiano. Dopo aver concluso il folgorante, magnifico, indimenticabile Il simpatizzante, di Viet Thanh Nguyen (traduzione di Luca Briasco, pubblicato in Italia da Neri Pozza Editore), vincitore del Premio Pulitzer per la narrativa nel 2016, ho maturato diverse riflessioni su questo importante riconoscimento. Rispetto a molti (non […]
Vietnam War revisited by author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Peter Pierce reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, The Sympathizer, and The Refugees for The Weekend Australian. Last year, not long after the publication of his Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen released a nonfiction analysis, impassioned yet forensic, of ‘‘Vietnam and the memory of war’’. This book […]
Stories Behind The Refugees
SBTN and Hollywood First Look interview Viet Thanh Nguyen about The Refugees in this two-part interview. Part 1: Part 2:
Viet Thanh Nguyen on His Timely Collection, ’The Refugees’
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and his personal experiences as a refugee in this interview for KQED News. Viet Thanh Nguyen is an award-winning writer who grew up in San Jose after immigrating to the United States with his family in 1975 as a refugee fleeing the Communist-controlled country. He is a professor at the […]
Pulitzer Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on His New Book The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees with Sarah Begley in this interview for TIME. Viet Thanh Nguyen had a pretty spectacular 2016: his debut novel, The Sympathizer, about a Vietnamese double agent who goes to California after the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize after selling only 22,000 copies in hardcover. Thanks to that and other […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen on being a refugee and being unwanted
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and his experiences in this interview for KCRW with Amy Ta. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new book “The Refugees” is coming out at a time of heated national discussions around President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigrants and refugees coming to the United States. Nguyen, himself, is […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the refugees we don’t remember anymore
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees with Quang Tran in this interview for the America Magazine. When Viet Thanh Nguyen’s bold and mesmerizing debut novel The Sympathizer received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, it was an honor that took him by surprise. Having fled Vietnam in 1975 with his family at a young age, Nguyen was […]
