Niente muore mai. Il Vietnam e la memoria della guerra
The Italian edition of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen is now available on Amazon. «Se l’anima dell’America morirà avvelenata, sul referto dell’autopsia dovrà esserci scritto “Vietnam”». Non c’è forse spiegazione più concisa di questa frase di Martin Luther King per comprendere che cosa abbia significato per gli […]
Celeste Ng, Jon Meacham, and Other National Book Fest Participants Recommend Books for Washingtonians
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Displaced was listed as a recommendation from speakers at the Library of Congress on the September issue of the Washingtonian. Meg Medina Burn Baby Burn The Displaced, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen “This beautiful collection offers intimate stories of authors from around the world. The chilling details of their ordeals offer us accounts […]
Asian-Americans Need More Movies, Even Mediocre Ones
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes an Op-Ed for New York Times about narrative plenitude and Asian-American representation in Hollywood. If you are Asian-American, you have most likely heard of a movie called “Crazy Rich Asians,” based on the popular novel of the same title by Kevin Kwan. If you are not Asian-American, maybe you are wondering […]
Where is home?
Graa Boomsma reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for De Groene Amsterdammer. Viet Thanh Nguyen laat zien dat het oude vaderland niet iets is wat je kunt afschudden als je in een nieuw land woont. Wie denkt zijn lot altijd in eigen handen te kunnen houden, bedriegt zichzelf. ‘De sympathisant’ van de Amerikaans-Vietnamese schrijver Viet […]
“As minhas memórias começam quando me tornei refugiado aos 4 anos”
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Refugees with João Céu e Silva in this interview for Diario de Noticias. O escritor Viet Thanh Nguyen nasceu no Vietname em 1971 e com a queda de Saigão em 1975 a família refugia-se nos EUA. Considera-se refugiado e é crítico da política anti-imigração de Trump. Uma entrevista exclusiva sobre o […]
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 […]
Book Review: Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jiachen Zhang reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen for the British Association for American Studies. Viet Thanh Nguyen, a professor in American Studies who won a Pulitzer-Prize for his book, The Sympathizer (2015), opens up his 2016 treatise on memory and war with a powerful sentence: ‘All wars are […]
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 […]
Meet Viet Thanh Nguyen in Paris on July 4, 8, or 15
Viet Thanh Nguyen returns to the American Library in Paris to talk about The Displaced and hold two workshops, beginning July 4th. https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-viet-thanh-nguyen-the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives/ https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/masterclass-with-viet-thanh-nguyen/ https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/masterclass-with-viet-thanh-nguyen-2/
No Place To Call Home
Kera Thinks interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on World Refugee Day as they discuss refugees and his essay collection, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. When refugees leave their homes, they’re gambling that some place new will welcome them. Viet Thanh Nguyen knows that experience well as a refugee from Vietnam after the fall of […]
NOTHING EVER DIES: Vietnam and the Memory of War | By Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nguyễn Thị Điểu reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen for the journal Pacific Affairs. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. viii, 374 pp. (Illustrations.) US$27.95, cloth. ISBN 978-0-674-66034-2. Decades ago, at the end of a devastating conflict, a flow of humanity, braving all dangers while paying a deadly price, […]
READY TO READ THE MOST CELEBRATED AND BEST VIETNAM WAR BOOKS?
Tracy Sharpley reviews the best books about the Vietnam War for BookRiot and lists The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen in the fiction category. There was a time when all I knew of Vietnam war books was Tim O’Brien’s, The Things They Carried, a book that prompted the laconic entry in my book journal, “This book destroyed […]
‘Call Me a Refugee, Not an Immigrant’: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jon Wiener of The Nation interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen on refugee literature and the concept of “the genius.” You can listen to this episode of the “Start Making Sense” podcast here. The novelist on refugee literature and the concept of the “genius.” Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer. He’s also the recipient of the MacArthur […]
THRILLERS IN DISGUISE: 10 Essential Literary Novels That Master Suspense
Debra Jo Immergut lists The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen in her list of ten suspense novels in this feature for CrimeReads. My recipe for a peak reading experience: equal parts plot and poetry. My shelf of most-revered novels ranges along this border, a personal Pyrenees of suspense-packed stories told in ravishing language and with […]
CANON FODDER
Originally published in The Washington Post. Books by immigrants, foreigners and minorities don’t diminish the ‘classic’ curriculum. They enhance it. In 1992, as a first-year PhD student at Berkeley, I told the English department chairman, a famous Americanist, that I wanted to write a dissertation on Vietnamese and Vietnamese American literature. “You can’t do that,” […]
