The 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2017
Arianna Rebolini reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen and lists it in Buzzfeed‘s 24 Best Fictions Books of 2017. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s stunning short story collection is largely about exile and its aftermath. The stories explore what it is to be a refugee — what “refuge” quite literally looks like for those who have experienced […]
Goodreads Choice Awards 2017 Best Fiction
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2017 for Best Fiction. WINNER 39,077 votes LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE BY CELESTE NG (GOODREADS AUTHOR) Celeste Ng first came to readers’ attention with Everything I Never Told You, a 2014 Goodreads Choice Award nominee for best debut novel. In 2017, her sophomore effort, Little Fires Everywhere, takes home the prize […]
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 […]
An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Michael LeMahieu and Angela Naimou interview Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels for Contemporary Literature. VIET THANH NGUYEN Conducted by Michael LeMahieu and Angela Naimou Viet Thanh Nguyen is on a roll. In 2015, he published his first novel, The Sympathizer (Grove); it won the Pulitzer Prize and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. In […]
Brown Refo, White Nasho
Stephen Pham reflects on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees and Australian immigration policies and attitudes for the Sydney Review of Books. Of course, I will be called racist but, if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country. A truly […]
Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction 2017
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees was featured in Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2017. KIRKUS REVIEW A collection of stories, most set amid the Vietnamese exile communities of California, by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer (2015). “We had passed our youth in a haunted country,” declares the narrator of the opening story, a ghostwriter […]
The Secret to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Overnight Success
In this phone interview for Electric Lit, Joe Fassler inquires about the decades of work it took to build up to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s recent success. The novelist seemed to go from unknown to MacArthur genius in two years. In truth, it took decades. This month, the novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen was awarded one of […]
MacArthur Genius winner Viet Thanh Nguyen addresses UC Santa Cruz
Mairav Zonszein covers Viet Thanh Nguyen’s appearance at UC Santa Cruz’s Living Writers Series for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Author and academic Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke at UC Santa Cruz Thursday night, telling the crowd of more than 200 his refugee story. The University of Southern California professor spoke just days after being awarded the […]
The Awl: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
An interview with Bryan Washington regarding refugee literature and American politics. Interview originally published on The Awl. This conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen took place a few days after he received a MacArthur “genius grant”. As the author of a Pulitzer prize-winning novel (The Sympathizer), and a collection of short stories (The Refugees), as well as a nonfiction work chronicling narratives of […]
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 […]
Les Lettres Françaises Reviews The Sympathizer
Jean-Pierre Han comments on the destabilizing turns Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer takes in this review for Les Lettres Françaises. D’un Vietnamien ayant quitté son pays avec ses parents au moment de la libération de Saïgon par les forces communistes et alors qu’il n’avait que quatre ans, réfugié aux États-Unis depuis, parfaitement intégré au point […]
la Repubblica: The Refugees
Melania Mazzucco writes a review of the short stories within Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Italy’s la Repubblica. I personaggi di Viet Thanh Nguyen, premio Pulitzer per “Il simpatizzante”, vivono sospesi tra la necessità di dimenticare e quella di ricordare la storia da cui provengono. Sono “I rifugiati” del titolo del nuovo libro dell’autore vietnamita: otto racconti […]
Viet kieu
In this interview for KUOW, Thanh Tan discusses the long-term effects of the Vietnam War with Viet Thanh Nguyen and others. Ever realize there is more to your family’s past than you’ve been told? Welcome to Second Wave, an American story that begins in Vietnam. http://kuow.org/post/viet-kieu After her father was falsely accused of being a […]
The Best Books, Shows, Films and Podcasts of 2017 for History Lovers
The staff at History names Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees as one of the best books of 2017 for history lovers. As 2017 slips into the history books, take a look back at the year in culture—with the best new releases that drew from the past. Whatever medium your personal passion might be, these movies, books, TV […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Ghosts
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the Vietnam War, the writing life, and the archaeology of memory with Josephine Livingstone for New Republic. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the Vietnam War, the writing life, and the archaeology of memory. “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Thus opens […]
