Viet Thanh Nguyen: “Memory is politics in my books”
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer and The Refugees and the role of memory in his books in this interview with Eugenio Gianetta in Esquire. Ci incontriamo appena prima di pranzo al Borgo Antico di Monchiero, una località magica, immersa nel foliage di stagione, vicino ad Alba e al Castello di Grinzane Cavour. È lì […]
“The Refugees”: The new storytelling book by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Beate Meierfrankenfeld reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for BR24. “Die Geflüchteten”, von denen Viet Thanh Nguyen in seinem neuen Buch erzählt, das sind Menschen, die alles verloren haben, versehrte Erwachsene in den USA, auf der Suche nach einem neuen Leben und Kinder, die zwischen den Kulturen Fuß fassen müssen. Manchmal werden die Überreste […]
Christmas reading for the voltage finder
Malin Krutmeijer reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen as part of holiday book recommendations for Aftonbladet. ”Sympatisören” av Viet Thanh Nguyen (Tranan) Det är med skohorn jag klämmer in Viet Thanh Nguyens Pulitzerprisbelönade Sympatisören i spänningsgenren, men den är faktiskt en spionroman. Spännande är det också, när den namnlösa huvudpersonen återberättar sina år som kommunistagent under Vietnamkriget. Han […]
A double-spy strange odyssey
Jakob Carlander reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Upsala Nya Tidning. Jakob Carlander får nya perspektiv på Vietnamkriget efter att ha läst den amerikanske författaren Viet Thanh Nguyens prisade roman “Sympatisören”. Det finns ett talesätt som många flerkulturella människor genast kan identifiera sig med: Den som har två hemländer har inget. Den amerikanske […]
Telling Vietnam refugees: meeting with the Pulitzer Prize author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Matilde Quarti interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer for il Libraio. “Mi sembra che al giorno d’oggi ci sia ancora così tanta paura per i nuovi rifugiati perché i Paesi che li accolgono non riescono a vederli come esseri umani, ma solamente come una minaccia. Per questo credo che ci sia […]
Race, Displacement, and the Public Intellectual: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Anthony Ocampo interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about race and their intellectual worlds in this interview for Contexts. Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American novelist and academic whose books include The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies, Race and Resistance, and a new edited collection, The Displaced, alongside his best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning book The Sympathizer. Nguyen, University Professor of English, American […]
Sống sót / Survival
In this article for the Daily Bruin, Kristie-Valerie Hoang interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen and reports on the Vietnamese-American identity and struggle in California. December 1978. Quyen Di Chuc Bui spent three nights in a Santa Ana parking lot when he first moved to California. During his arrival to the Golden State, the winter nightfall and […]
Victims of War, and Now Victims of the Trump Administration
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Eric Tang discuss the deportation of Vietnamese refugees under the Trump administration in this Opinion piece for the New York Times. What is an appropriate punishment for a crime? The plight of thousands of Vietnamese refugees convicted of crimes in the United States and now threatened with detention or deportation demands an answer […]
He portrays a fragmented Vietnam and refugee life in the United States
Maria Edström reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Göteborgs-Posten. Viet Thanh Nguygens prisade debutroman Sympatisören berättar om det “amerikanska kriget” ur en vietnamesisk spions synvinkel. Maria Edström läser en överlastad roman som lyfter först när den skildrar ett förött flyktingliv i USA. ”Vietnam är nära, utanför ditt fönster” sjöng den svenska Vietnamrörelsens sånggrupp […]
General Education S2E14: High Frequency: Viet Thanh Nguyen
On the last episode of General Education by Daily Trojan, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the Asian American identity, refugees, and the USC community. Karan talks with University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen for this season’s final episode of General Education. Nguyen will start teaching at USC again next semester, after being on […]
I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, talks about immigration in America and his experiences as a Vietnamese refugee in this essay for TIME. Love it or leave it. Have you heard someone say this? Or have you said it? Anyone who has heard these five words knows what it means, because it almost always refers to America. Anyone who has heard this sentence knows it is a loaded gun, pointed […]
Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Wesley Yang’s collection of essays, The Souls of Yellow Folk, for the New York Times Book Review. THE SOULS OF YELLOW FOLK Essays By Wesley Yang 215 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $24.95. My disappointment with Wesley Yang’s collection of essays, “The Souls of Yellow Folk,” stems from the difference between […]
Could Asian-Americans Turn Orange County Blue?
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses Asian-American influence in Orange County for the 2018 midterm elections in this op-ed for New York Times. When I was a freshman at the University of California, Riverside, in 1988, I drove a carload of excited fellow Vietnamese students to nearby Orange County. It was only 13 years after the end […]
Bill Ruehlmann: In “The Displaced,” we see immigrants, see ourselves
Bill Ruehlmann reviews The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Virginian-Pilot. Sometimes a true story by a complete stranger can hit you like a stomach punch. There are 18 of them in “The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives” (Abrams Press, 190 pp., $25), edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, also recipient […]
A CENTURY OF READING: THE 10 BOOKS THAT HAVE DEFINED THE 2010S (SO FAR)
Emily Temple lists Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer in LitHub‘s ten books that have defined the 2010s. Some books are flashes in the pan, read for entertainment and then left on a bus seat for the next lucky person to pick up and enjoy, forgotten by most after their season has passed. Others stick around, […]
