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 […]
College admissions are corrupt because universities are. Here’s how to fix them.
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the college admissions scandal and solutions for the future in this op-ed for The Washington Post. The scandal around rich people buying college admissions for their underqualified children is disgusting and disheartening for everyone, but especially for those of us who teach and study at universities. My own University of Southern […]
NOTHING EVER DIES
Sara Camaiora reviews Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Mangialibri. “Se l’anima dell’America morirà avvelenata, sul referto dell’autopsia dovrà esserci scritto Vietnam”. Sono parole di Martin Luther King, fanno riflettere sul significato più profondo di quel conflitto sanguinoso e doloroso che si è svolto tra Vietnam, Cambogia, Laos, con innumerevoli morti da ogni […]
America, Say My Name
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about his experiences with a Vietnamese name in America in this op-ed for New York Times. LOS ANGELES — What’s your name? Mine is Viet Thanh Nguyen, although I was born in Vietnam as Nguyen Thanh Viet. Whichever way you arrange my name, it is not a typical American name. Growing […]
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 […]
A Night with MacArthur Fellows Viet Thanh Nguyen & An-My Lê
In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Third World Liberation Front Student Strike, the Department of Asian American Studies at SF State hosted a “Night with MacArthur Fellows Viet Nguyen and An-My Lê”. Read the transcript below: Russell Jeung: Okay. Welcome everybody to the 50th anniversary commemoration event. Thank you for coming. I’m Russell […]
VIET THANH NGUYEN The Sympathizer. Reviewed by Kurt Johnson
Kurt Johnson reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Newtown Review of Books. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel The Sympathizer shows the Vietnam war from a Vietnamese perspective, critiquing Hollywood’s renderings of the conflict in the process. When Ed Burns and Lynn Novick’s 17-hour documentary The Vietnam War was released in 2017, it rightly received […]
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 […]
The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam”, and its messages for this article on TIME. Most Americans remember Martin Luther King Jr. for his dream of what this country could be, a nation where his children would “not be judged by the color of their skin but by […]
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 […]
Why We Struggle to Say ‘I Love You’
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the Asian-American family dynamic and struggles in this New York Times Opinions article. For many Asian-Americans, the phrase belongs to the wonderful world of white people we see in the movies and on television. Is it true that Asian-Americans cannot say “I love you?” The striking title of the writer […]
