Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writers on Writing
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about The Refugees and his books with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett in this interview for KUCI. Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, is my guest for the entire hour. He talks about his new book of short stories, The Refugees, and his nonfiction book–the bookend to The Sympathizer—Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. […]
Review: “Nothing Ever Dies” By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Bill Schwab reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War”. Originally published by The Missourian. “All wars are fought twice,” writes Viet Thanh Nguyen. “The first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Born in Vietnam in 1971 and raised in San Jose, Nguyen began testing this hypothesis […]
Nguyen Thanh Viet, Pulitzer Prize 2016: “There is no single definition of Vietnamese”
Cam Ly interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview about his books and the Vietnamese identity for Nguoi Dothi. Một ngày đầu tháng 5.2016, nhà văn Nguyễn Thanh Việt bước lên bục giảng của hội trường khoa Anh ngữ Đại học tiểu bang California tại Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Mỉm cười nhìn hơn 300 khán giả […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Vietnamese Americans embody the contradictions of American history
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees and the Vietnamese American community in this interview for Người-Việt. Ngồi trên ghế sofa trong phòng khách được trang trí rất hiện đại và tinh tế, Việt Thanh Nguyễn nhìn qua khung cửa sổ rộng ra con đường đối diện mà thường ngày xe nối đuôi nhau đậu dọc […]
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen “Never Stopped Being a Refugee”
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his books and the public’s view on refugees in this interview for Mother Jones. Here’s his theory on why we fear asylum-seekers. In a national Reuters poll released on January 31, 49 percent of respondents said they favored Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban.” (A subsequent Gallup poll showed 42 percent support.) This interview might shed some […]
War, Memory, and Vietnam: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Nothing Ever Dies and his personal experiences in this interview for the History News Network. The troubling weight of the past is especially evident when we speak of war and our limited ability to recall it. Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman, war remains with us and within us, impossible to […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about his books and his writing process in this interview for The Writer. In fiction and nonfiction alike, this Pulitzer Prize winner aims to shed fresh light on war, race, culture, and, ultimately, our humanity. Viet Thanh Nguyen recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, The Sympathizer. Fiction writer, nonfiction […]
Bonnie Boswell Reports – Viet Thanh Nguyen
In this interview with Bonnie Boswell for PBS SoCal, Viet Thanh Nguyen describes The Sympathizer and the art of story telling. Here are the transcriptions of the interview: Part 1: Bonnie Boswell: Hello, I’m Bonnie Boswell. According to the latest census, there are nearly 20,000 Vietnamese-Americans living in Los Angeles. Many of the first came […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen, France’s Best Foreign Book Award Prize 2017
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer wins the 2017 Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) in the novel category. Original article by Antoine Oury published by ActuaLitte. Sous l’égide des Escales Littéraires Sofitel, le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger Sofitel a été attribué, dans la catégorie roman, à l’Américain Viet Thanh Nguyen […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s latest work is a nonfiction companion to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Nothing Ever Dies and the history of the Vietnam War in this interview for USC Dornsife. USC Dornisfe’s Viet Thanh Nguyen delivers an acclaimed nonfiction work on the Vietnam War that raises questions about the ethics of memory as he explores how different countries remember the conflict. In Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam […]
The Public Historian Review of Nothing Ever Dies
This review of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Margaret B. Bodemer was originally published in Volume 39 of The Public Historian, on pages 139-141. How can anyone support war when they have witnessed it firsthand, listened to survivors’ stories, or even read about its ‘‘human costs’’? This thought echoed in […]
Wars do not die
Joanna Kapica-Curzytek reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by Esensja. Wyróżniony w tym roku Nagrodą Pulitzera „Sympatyk” jest rozliczeniem się z wojną w Wietnamie, jakiego prawdopodobnie w literaturze angielskojęzycznej jeszcze nie było. Główny bohater powieści to człowiek o dwóch duszach, dwóch twarzach i dwóch umysłach. Jest (nieślubnym) synem Europejczyka i Wietnamki, co […]
Charlie Rose Interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” with Charlie Rose. TRANSCRIPT Charlie Rose: Viet Thanh Nguyen is here. His debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It examines the Vietnam War through the eyes of its narrator, a mole for the Viet Cong embedded with the south Vietnamese […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Center for Fiction’s 2015 First Novel Prize for ‘The Sympathizer’
Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Center for Fiction’s 2015 First Novel Prize for The Sympathizer. Here is the transcript: Speaker 1: And the winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction first novel price is The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Nguyen: Wow, this is what a prize looks like. It’s pretty incredible. On […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen reads ‘The Sympathizer’ | Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Viet Thanh Nguyen reads The Sympathizer at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Here’s the transcript: Viet Nguyen: And so now you see what I’m up against. Now you see what the protagonist of my novel is up against as he is enlisted to read a screenplay for a movie called, “The Hamlet.” Not Hamlet, just […]
