TBS eFM This Morning Seoul
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his personal experiences as a refugee and the current refugee crisis in this interview with eFM This Morning Seoul. Here is a transcript: Speaker 1: (Singing) Alex Jensen: Now, to celebrate our new fall season, we have a special guest. An English professor and novelist, Viet Thanh Nguyen, who won […]
Unshelved: Orientalism And Sexualization In The Sympathizer
Sienna Brancato reviews The Sympathizer for the Georgetown Voice. This article mentions the novel’s portrayal of sexual assault. After I finished reading Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, it felt like my world had been rocked. It was similar to the way I felt after finishing Brave New World and 1984, as though something about the way I saw the […]
“REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING”: AN INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN
Karl Ashoka Britto interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels and personal experiences as a refugee for Public Books. Since the 2015 publication of his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen has emerged as one of the literary world’s leading public intellectuals. At a time of rising xenophobia and anti-refugee sentiment in the […]
“Good” Refugees, “Bad” Refugees: A Conversation in Paris with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Christine Buckley interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his books and refugees for the Los Angeles Review of Books. VIET THANH NGUYEN goes to bed early. Like 10 o’clock, before the sun goes down in the Parisian summer. Which was why we met for an apéro at 6:00 p.m. one hot evening, two days after a French team […]
REVIEW: Lecture: Race, War, and Refugees with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Fareah Fysudeen reports on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s reading and discussion of his books at the University of Michigan in this article for [art]seen. Viet Thanh Nguyen received critical acclaim for his book The Sympathizer, earning a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 and a string of other awards and recognitions. It was to the utmost excitement of the […]
Pulitzer prize-winning author discusses refugee identity, storytelling
Aaron Baker of Michigan Daily reports on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s lecture about refugees and the Vietnamese perspective at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, a professor at the University of Southern California, spoke Tuesday to a packed Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre on the perceptions of refugees and the Vietnamese perspective of the […]
Interview with the New Orleans Review
This interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen for the New Orleans Review was conducted by Elizabeth Sulis Kim. Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Vietnamese-American author and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, was a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2017. His works include The Sympathizer, which was awarded the […]
Losing My Son to Reading
Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his feelings on the independence reading provides in relation to his young son in this opinion piece for The New York Times. Books helped me gain independence. So it saddens me just a bit to see my son reading on his own. Do you remember when you learned to read? Like most […]
Delightful Listening: A Conversation Between Viet Thanh Nguyen with Arundhati Roy
This conversation between Viet Thanh Nguyen and Arundhati Roy, whose latest novel is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), took place at the New York Public Library and was published by the LA Review of Books. To listen to the conversation, click here. ARUNDHATI ROY: Thank you. I feel I must clarify this hooker that won the Booker business. What […]
A Conversation with Author Viet Thanh Nguyen: Vietnamese Diaspora in the United States and France
Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his books and his projects including “The Displaced” that was recently published in the US. The book is the result of his collaboration with 17 fellow refugees writers across the globe. More particularly, Viet Thanh Nguyen will start a conversation with the Vietnamese diaspora in Paris on their reading experience. The […]
Leah Franqui Recommends A Reading List About Culture Shock
Lea Franqui lists The Sympathizer on her list of books about Culture Shock in this feature for Electric Lit. I moved to Mumbai, India almost three years ago so I’m intimately acquainted with the concept of culture shock. When I wrote my debut novel, America for Beginners, I was curious to see how immigrants and visitors […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Identity, War, and The Sympathizer’s Sequel
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses identity, war, and The Sympathizer’s sequel in this interview conducted by the Les Cahiers Du Nem admin. For his startling and brilliant debut novel on the Vietnam War, The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2016. In France, he received the “Prix du Meilleur Livre étranger” […]
9 GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS BY AUTHORS BORN IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Emily Temple of the Literary Hub lists The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen in her list of nine American novels by foreign authors. First things first: what exactly is a Great American Novel? Opinions have long been divided on the subject, and the truth is, one person’s GAN is another’s trashy beach read. Er, probably. Still, I think […]
Revolutionary Crime Fiction
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer makes the Crime Reads list of 21 Crime Novels Set During Revolutions and Rebellions. In honor of the 4th of July, we decided to celebrate crime fiction set during all revolutions, even those that succeeded only in establishing themselves in our collective historical memory. No matter the revolution, these works share some […]
Modern Language Association Publishes Forum on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Work
The Modern Language Association publishes a forum of articles on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s books in the PMLA March 2018 issue. Articles Included: Slips and Slides by Sarah Chihaya Vietnam, the Movie: Part Deux by Sylvia Shin Huey Chong Un-American: Refugees and the Vietnam War by Yogiya Goyal The Lasting Lure of the Asian Mystery […]
