Ploughshares Reviews The Refugees
Ploughshares‘ Yasmin Majeed writes a review on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees and Mai Der Vang’s Afterland, exploring both as a ghost story. “When we migrate we murder from our lives those we leave behind,” wrote Mohsin Hamid in his heralded novel of the contemporary refugee crisis, Exit West. Migration, especially for refugees, is a violent crossing. When […]
Refugee History: The Refugees
Dr Trudi Tate of Refugee History writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, his award-winning collection of short stories. The war in Viet Nam lasted from 1955 to 1975. The US was covertly involved from the 1950s, and overtly at war in Viet Nam 1963-73. American intervention helped to create a huge number […]
Kartika Review’s Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Anne Mai Yee Jansen interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for Kartika Review. Viet Thanh Nguyen is an award-winning Vietnamese American author and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His first novel, The Sympathizer (2015), won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His subsequent exploration […]
American Storyteller
Eric Bennett of Public Books writes about Viet Nguyen’s The Refugees, alongside musings on other authors and their work(s), including Ottessa Moshfegh, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Junot Díaz, Roxane Gay, and Chanelle Benz. What makes American life meaningful? Apple products? Cat videos? Torrential pornography? The prospect of a lavish retirement? The senior prom? Forestalling your plunge into poverty? Prescription narcotics? […]
Sight Magazine: The Refugees
David Adams of Australia’s Sight Magazine writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of people fled the country, making their way to the US (as well as, of course, Australia, Canada and France). This book – written by one of those refugees, Viet […]
History is Not Over: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
In this interview for The Common, Alexander Bisley and Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss The Sympathizer and the refugee crisis. Author Viet Thanh Nguyen is on a hot streak. Since winning a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, his nonfiction collection Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War and this year’s short-story collection The Refugees have amassed acclaim. In an ultimately […]
Singapore Unbound: The Refugees
Andrea Yew of Singapore Unbound examines the themes of identity, displacement, and trauma in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees. In a time characterized by political instability and virulent polemics, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s collection of short stories The Refugees is a much-needed mediation about the experience of displacement. From the young Vietnamese refugee who is haunted by the loss of […]
Dawn: The Refugees
Dawn’s Hurmat Kazmi reviews the short stories within Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, and comments on its timely publishing. Had he not deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction last year with his novel The Sympathiser, Viet Thanh Nguyen, like the characters in his new book of short stories, The Refugees, may have been overwhelmed. […]
Ny Tid Reviews The Refugees
Birgitte Gustava Røthe Bjørnøy of Ny Tid reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, noting the well-timed and universality of its themes. Reportes Without Borders kunne i desember 2016 meddele at 348 journalister satt fengslet verden over – en økning på seks prosent fra året før. Mye av dette skyldes forholdene i Tyrkia, men dette burde på ingen […]
Books & Co. 2007 Viet Thanh Nguyen
Alberto Rios discusses The Refugees with Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview for PBS. Nguyen comes back with a breathtaking collection of short stories, reflecting the complex lives that immigrants have to undertake, and their aspirations to “make it” in another country. From the streets of Ho Chi Ming to the avenues of San Jose, […]
The Lit Up Show Episode 99: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Vietnamese-American Refugee Experience
Angela Ledgerwood interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on Episode 99 of The Lit Up Show. Listen to Viet Thanh Nguyen HERE. The multi-talented Nguyen knows what it means to inhabit a life radically shaped by history. In 1975, he and his family came to The United States as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War. His debut novel, The Sympathizer, winner […]
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl
The following interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen was conducted by Nancy Pearl for her show “Book Lust” and can be seen on Seattle Channel. Nancy Pearl: Hello and welcome to Book Lust. I’m Nancy Pearl. My guest today at University Bookstore is Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen. Thank you so much for taking time to […]
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 […]
Author provides voice for refugees
The NZ Herald reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s works The Sympathizer, The Refugees, and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. The United States is quite the journey for Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 Pulitzer-prize fiction winner for The Sympathizer. The 45-year-old father, whose recent publishing acclaim also includes Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War and this […]
CSU Monterey Bay and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author revisit the Vietnam War
Walter Ryce of Monterey County Weekly interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen ahead of CSU Monterey Bay’s 21st annual Social Justice Colloquium. CSU Monterey Bay’s 21st annual Social Justice Colloquium is titled “The Ethics of Remembering and Forgetting: On Memory, Wars, and Resistance.” Angie Tran, CSUMB professor of political economy, calls it “a forum that brings together the CSUMB […]
