The power of narrative and representation
Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his stories on representation, voices and refugees at the Department of State’s Asian-American Foreign Affairs Association keynote event in this article for the STATE Magazine. In May, the Department of State celebrated Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in partnership with two of the Department’s employee affinity groups: the Asian-American […]
In Trump’s vision of a white America, immigrants should be grateful and servile
What “go back” really means. Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the impact of Trump’s “MAGA” slogan on immigrants, refugees, and people of color through the Washington Post. When Donald Trump first proclaimed “Make America Great Again,” many white Americans focused on the slogan’s explicit appeal. Why wouldn’t we want America to be great again? But […]
In Trump’s vision of a white America, immigrants should be grateful and servile
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the meaning and effects of Trump’s recent comments about immigrants in this op-ed for The Washington Post. When Donald Trump first proclaimed “Make America Great Again,” many white Americans focused on the slogan’s explicit appeal. Why wouldn’t we want America to be great again? But many of us who do not […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Writing to Re-member
Helen Scott interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about the refugee crisis, US policy, and the ‘narrative scarcity’ for minority and marginalized populations in this article for Guernica. Viet Thanh Nguyen is one of our era’s most powerful chroniclers of capitalism, war, and the refugee experience. A writer, scholar, and professor, he has won both a Pulitzer […]
AMERICAN MASTERS PODCAST – Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses growing up in the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam, and how writing and reading helped him cope with this difficult experience in this episode of the American Masters Podcast. Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses growing up in the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam, and how writing and reading helped him […]
Hereafter, Faraway
Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about his refugee experience in this essay for The New Yorker. My eternal scene takes place in a faraway country, the one in which I was born and of which I have no memory. My mother’s death was for me the closing of a door that had moved almost imperceptibly but […]
Việt Thanh Nguyễn – Viết lách là sự thôi thúc từ bên trong
Anh Tram interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels and writing in this article for L’Officiel. Người yêu văn chương xứ Việt hẳn đã từng nghe tên Việt Thanh Nguyễn – nhà văn gốc Việt đầu tiên đoạt giải Pulitzer văn học với tiểu thuyết đầu tay The Sympathizer. Trong một chuyên đề đặc biệt […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen – Writing is an urge from inside
Anh Trâm interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels, The Symapthizer, The Refugees, The Displaced, and Nothing Ever Dies for Runway. Người yêu văn chương xứ Việt hẳn đã từng nghe tên Việt Thanh Nguyễn – nhà văn gốc Việt đầu tiên đoạt giải Pulitzer văn học với tiểu thuyết đầu tay The Sympathizer. Trong […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen and the Vietnam wounds remained open
Renato Graziano reviews The Sympathizer and The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Nuova Societa. Fra gli innumerevoli ospiti del recente Salone del Libro 2019, Viet Thanh Nguyen è fra i meno conosciuti ma, a mio modesto avviso, fra i più rilevanti e meritevoli di essere letti. Vietnamita di nascita (1971) arriva a quattro anni assieme alla […]
A different view of the war in Vietnam: Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Book Fair
Chiara Manetti discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s remarks at the Turin Book Fair for this article in Futura News. La Guerra in Vietnam raccontata da una prospettiva diversa, attraverso gli occhi di un protagonista insolito. Il simpatizzante di Viet Thanh Nguyen si pone lontano dalla tipica visione americana della Guerra in Vietnam, il conflitto durato un ventennio e […]
The Pulitzer Prize Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Book Fair: “I am censored in Vietnam”
Manuela Marascio discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen’s remarks of the Vietnam War at the Turin Book Fair in this article for Torin Oggi. L’autore dell’acclamato successo del 2015 “Il simpatizzante” ha parlato delle diverse percezioni tra Occidente e Oriente rispetto alla guerra vietnamita “Negli Stati Uniti ora avverto una regressione delle istanze democratiche. Ma credo sia […]
INTERVIEW WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN
Anna Lattanzi interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his writing and novels in this article for Mangialibri. Incontro Viet Thanh Nguyen, apprezzato scrittore vietnamita-statunitense, al Salone del Libro di Torino 2019, elegante nel suo abito scuro, con un fare inizialmente serioso, che si scioglie in una stretta di mano e un sorridente buongiorno pronunciato con allegra […]
Struggling to find a place, refugee writers speak for themselves
Thy Vo discusses refugee writers and The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this article for The Mercury News. OAKLAND — Amid a national debate over the country’s policies toward immigrants and deportation policies, a group of panelists spoke of the complexity of being displaced and struggling for identity in the country they sought refuge. […]
PEN Out Loud: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maaza Mengiste and Lev Golinkin
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maaza Mengiste, and Lev Golinkin discuss The Displaced, an essay collection by refugee writers at the Strand Bookstore. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), and authors Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze) and Lev Golinkin (A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka) discuss the critically acclaimed anthology The […]
An interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Piper French interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his books, The Sympathizer, The Refugees, and The Displaced in this article for Asymptote. In his nonfiction treatise on memory and the Vietnam War, Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen invokes the German writer W. G. Sebald’s concept of “secondhand memory”—the impact of war and trauma on those “seared […]
