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 […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen – Writing is an urge from inside
Anh Trâm interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels, The Symapthizer, The Refugees, The Displaced, and Nothing Ever Dies for Runway. Người yêu văn chương xứ Việt hẳn đã từng nghe tên Việt Thanh Nguyễn – nhà văn gốc Việt đầu tiên đoạt giải Pulitzer văn học với tiểu thuyết đầu tay The Sympathizer. Trong […]
A different view of the war in Vietnam: Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Book Fair
Chiara Manetti discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s remarks at the Turin Book Fair for this article in Futura News. La Guerra in Vietnam raccontata da una prospettiva diversa, attraverso gli occhi di un protagonista insolito. Il simpatizzante di Viet Thanh Nguyen si pone lontano dalla tipica visione americana della Guerra in Vietnam, il conflitto durato un ventennio e […]
An interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Piper French interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his books, The Sympathizer, The Refugees, and The Displaced in this article for Asymptote. In his nonfiction treatise on memory and the Vietnam War, Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen invokes the German writer W. G. Sebald’s concept of “secondhand memory”—the impact of war and trauma on those “seared […]
Arrived – at what price? Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about Vietnamese refugees
Katharina Borchardt reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this article for Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In zwei grossen Wellen trafen zwischen 1975 und Mitte der 1980er Jahre vietnamesische Flüchtlinge in den USA ein. Auch Viet Thanh Nguyen zählte zu ihnen – und der 1971 in Buôn Ma Thuôt geborene Autor hat aus solchen Schicksalen […]
INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN ON THE REFUGEES
Timothy Tau interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about writing and story-making in this article for Hyphen Magazine. I recently got the chance to sit down and talk with Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen about his most recent book, the short story collection The Refugees, which has recently garnered the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Nguyen is known for winning the Pulitzer, […]
In Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Mai Elliott
Friends of the Claremont Library and the Center for Asian Pacific American Students at Pitzer College (CAPAS) hosted Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Claremont author and historian Mai Elliott. Here is the transcript: Lanore P.: If you would turn off your phones so that we don’t have little interruption during the course of this. […]
REFUGEES
Sara Camaiora reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Mangialibri. Donare le parole agli altri, è questo il suo lavoro. Come fa con Victor Donato, unico sopravvissuto di un incidente aereo nel quale ha perso moglie e figli. È una “ghost writer”, scrive libri per conto di altri. È concentrata su questa vicenda e […]
The Refugees – The search for a new identity
Francesca Polistina reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Migazin. Acht Erzählungen hat Viet Thanh Nguyen in diesem Band versammelt. Sie sind angesiedelt in den Siebziger- und Achtzigerjahren, handeln von Menschen, die aus Vietnam geflüchtet sind und versuchen, in Amerika eine neue Heimat zu finden. Identität ist vielleicht das wichtige Wort im Viet Thanh […]
If the war had not been
Lea Schneider reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this article for Suddeutsche Zeitung. Viet Thanh Nguyen erzählt in Short Stories über die Flucht aus dem kriegsversehrten Vietnam der Siebzigerjahre. Er will alle Beteiligten als Subjekte darstellen: aktiv und verantwortlich.Von Lea Schneider Wer 2018 ein Buch mit dem Titel “Die Geflüchteten” aufschlägt, dürfte darin Geschichten über […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Refugees”, Neri Pozza Ed., Vicenza, 2017
Andrea Giostra of MobMagazine reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Recensione di Andrea Giostra Come per tutti i grandi artisti, come per tutti i grandi scrittori, per comprendere la poietica di Viet Thanh Nguyen, occorre inevitabilmente conoscere la sua storia, le origini, le vicende che hanno attraversato la sua vita, da cosa è stato […]
Review of “The Refugees” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Andrea Giostra reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for ilSicilia.it Come per tutti i grandi artisti, come per tutti i grandi scrittori, per comprendere la poietica di Viet Thanh Nguyen, occorre inevitabilmente conoscere la sua storia, le origini, le vicende che hanno attraversato la sua vita, da cosa è stato segnato e da quali esperienze […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: “Memory is politics in my books”
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer and The Refugees and the role of memory in his books in this interview with Eugenio Gianetta in Esquire. Ci incontriamo appena prima di pranzo al Borgo Antico di Monchiero, una località magica, immersa nel foliage di stagione, vicino ad Alba e al Castello di Grinzane Cavour. È lì […]
“The Refugees”: The new storytelling book by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Beate Meierfrankenfeld reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for BR24. “Die Geflüchteten”, von denen Viet Thanh Nguyen in seinem neuen Buch erzählt, das sind Menschen, die alles verloren haben, versehrte Erwachsene in den USA, auf der Suche nach einem neuen Leben und Kinder, die zwischen den Kulturen Fuß fassen müssen. Manchmal werden die Überreste […]
Victims of War, and Now Victims of the Trump Administration
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Eric Tang discuss the deportation of Vietnamese refugees under the Trump administration in this Opinion piece for the New York Times. What is an appropriate punishment for a crime? The plight of thousands of Vietnamese refugees convicted of crimes in the United States and now threatened with detention or deportation demands an answer […]
