Longreads: An Interview with Macarthur ‘Genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen on Longreads
2017 MacArthur fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses questions of justice, diversity in literature, and empathy across cultures in an interview with Catherine Cusick. Interview originally published by Longreads. Viet Thanh Nguyen had just gotten back from a summer in Paris when he received an unexpected phone call from a Chicago number. He didn’t recognize the […]
How a Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Thinks About Coffee, Screenplays and Facebook
In this interview for the Observer, Jimmy Soni asks Viet Thanh Nguyen about his writing process. This past week, Viet Thanh Nguyen was announced as one of the winners of this year’s MacArthur “Genius” Grants. It is the latest honor in a career that has taken Nguyen from writing screenplay drafts to winning the Pulitzer Prize for […]
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 […]
Le Figaro Magazine Reviews The Sympathizer
The following is a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, originally published in the French-language newspaper, Le Figaro Magazine. LA GUERRE DU VIETNAM est finie. Et avec elle, son cortège de romans sur l’offensive du Têt, l’évacuation dramatique de Saïgon, autant d’images de fer et de feu abondamment diffusées par le cinéma. L’auteur du Sympathisant, Viet […]
El Libro Durmiente Reviews The Sympathizer
Tati Jurado explores loss in a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer for Spanish-language publication, El Libro Durmiente. El olvido es como esa gruesa capa de polvo que hay sobre algún portarretratos que busca tapar algún recuerdo que muerde. Una forma de protegerse, de aislarse de esos sucesos que hirieron. Una herida ajena o propia, […]
El Espectador Reviews The Sympathizer
Jorge Eduardo Espinosa of the Columbian newspaper, El Espectador, writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. En la portada hay un hombre asiático mirando un atardecer a través de unos binoculares. Atraviesan el cielo tres helicópteros de guerra rasgando la mezcla de colores: naranja, amarillo, rojo. Hay palmeras. Es Vietnam. El autor se llama […]
The Afterlife of Agent Orange
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Originally published by Public Books. “All wars are fought twice,” writes Viet Thanh Nguyen in Nothing Ever Dies, “the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Even decades after the first war ends, the second war […]
Let Us Read Some Books Reviews The Sympathizer
Nadine and Alex, the duo behind the German-language blog Let Us Read Some Books, review Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Im April des Jahres 1975 wird eine Gruppe von südvietnamesischen Offizieren in letzter Sekunde aus Saigon ausgeflogen und in die USA gebracht. Unter ihnen befindet sich auch ein als Adjutant getarnter Spion des Nordens. Seine […]
NNZ Online Reviews The Sympathizer
Mario Bartsch from the German publication, NNZ Online, writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Er wurde 1959 in Nordhausen geboren, hat in Redaktionen vieler großer Deutscher Zeitungen gearbeitet. Und der Mann liest gern. Für die Nordthüringer Online-Zeitungen stöbert Mario Bartsch in den Neuerscheinungen auf dem Büchermarkt… Ein kraftvolles Plädoyer gegen den Krieg und ein […]
Le Devoir Reviews The Sympathizer
Christian Desmeules writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer for the French-language and Montreal-based publication, Le Devoir. Depuis l’évacuation de Saigon en 1975 et les derniers jours de la république du Vietnam jusqu’au tournage du film Apocalypse Now à la fin de la même décennie, Viet Thanh Nguyen emprunte une perspective américaine plutôt rare sur la guerre du […]
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 […]
Sábado Reviews The Sympathizer
Eduardo Pitta reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Portuguese publication, Sábado. O autor vietnamita ganhou o Pulitzer de Ficção com este romance de estreia, que chegou agora às livrarias portuguesas Com O Simpatizante, o seu primeiro livro, Viet Thanh Nguyen (n. 1971) ganhou o Pulitzer de Ficção 2016. Nguyen tem origem vietnamita, mas […]
„Ich bin ein angry Asian American“
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the The Sympathizer and the American Vietnam narrative in an interview with Katharina Borchardt for taz. Viet Thanh Nguyen: Vielen Dank. Ich freue mich sehr über den Preis. Ich bin aber auch froh, dass gerade ein Buch ausgezeichnet wurde, das den Vietnamkrieg von verschiedenen Seiten beleuchtet. Wird der Krieg denn zu einseitig […]
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 […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen : “Hollywood est raciste”
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer with Doan Bui in an interview for Bibliobs. Avec “le Sympathisant”, le prix Pulitzer 2016 publie un roman férocement drôle sur la Guerre du Vietnam. Entretien. Les Vietnamiens vivent avec les fantômes, j’en sais quelque chose. A la porte de la maison des parents de Viet Thanh Nguyen, Américano-Vietnamien, il […]
