“Do not believe Coppola the real Vietnam I’ll tell it”
Annarita Briganti discusses The Sympathizer with Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview for La Repubblica. DA PROFUGO a Premio Pulitzer. La storia di Viet Thanh Nguyen, classe ‘71, primo vietnamita- americano a vincere il prestigioso riconoscimento, è un romanzo a parte. L’autore di Il simpatizzante (Neri Pozza, traduzione dall’inglese di Luca Briasco), quarantamila copie vendute solo […]
Kurier Reviews The Sympathizer
Peter Pisa writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer for the Vienna-based newspaper, Kurier. Ein junger Mann hat uns mitgenommen, er ist der Berater für vietnamesische Authentizität. Seine Mutter war Vietnamesin, er arbeitete in Saigon für den CIA, ehe er zu Kriegsende nach Amerika flüchten musste. Viel lässt ihn Coppola ja nicht korrigieren. […]
Pulitzer Prize winner criticizes American and Vietnamese cultures
Correio Brasiliense and Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss The Sympathizer in this interview for Cidadaverde.com. A Guerra do Vietnã durou quase 20 anos e deixou mais de três milhões de mortos de nacionalidade local. No entanto, boa parte da população americana costuma lembrar apenas dos 50 mil cidadãos americanos, a maioria militares mortos no conflito. O escritor […]
Un vietnamita infiltrado en Estados Unidos
Roberto Careaga interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for Economía Y Negocios. Nacido en Vietnam en plena guerra, Nguyen se crió en California como un refugiado y creció en medio de la tensión sobre su identidad. Apelando a su experiencia escribió El simpatizante , novela ganadora del Pulitzer 2016 sobre un espía comunista vietnamita que opera en suelo […]
The impassive Vietnamese
Por Rodrigo Fresan reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by Pagina 12. Si algo faltaba, acaba de llegar: la primera novela norteamericana sobre Vietnam escrita por alguien nacido en Vietnam. El simpatizante, de Viet Thanh Nguyen, ganó el Pulitzer con la historia de un refugiado, un espía, un inadaptado que escapa de […]
Kartika Review’s Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Anne Mai Yee Jansen interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for Kartika Review. Viet Thanh Nguyen is an award-winning Vietnamese American author and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His first novel, The Sympathizer (2015), won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His subsequent exploration […]
Now the Vietnamese team breaks out
Auke Hulst reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by NRC. Over de Vietnamoorlog is vooral verteld vanuit de Amerikaan. De sympathisant geeft het woord nu eens aan een Vietnamese spion, en doet dat vilein en onvergetelijk. Wanneer we alle Vietnamese slachtoffers van de Vietnamoorlog op een rij zouden leggen, zou die rij 43 keer […]
Buenos Aires Herald on The Sympathizer
Nicolás Meyer reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by Buenos Aires Herald. Here’s a superlative novel about espionage, ideology, identity, war, race, friendship, guilt and more. The “more” includes incisive and barbed observations about power games between nations, between East and West, and between individuals. The text, which is engrossing throughout, achieves […]
Culturamas Reviews: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Sympathizer
Juliano Ortiz reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by Culturamas. Si la derrota que no fue derrota de la Guerra de Vietnam fue origen de innumerables de libros y películas para los norteamericanos, para un escritor vietnamita fue la posibilidad de ganar el Pulitzer. Un “sueño americano” cumplido en la tierra de […]
Sight Magazine: The Refugees
David Adams of Australia’s Sight Magazine writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of people fled the country, making their way to the US (as well as, of course, Australia, Canada and France). This book – written by one of those refugees, Viet […]
De sympathisant is een belangrijk boek over de Vietnamoorlog
Hans Bouman reviews The Sympathizer for De Volkskrant. Dit was de eerste oorlog waarin de verliezers geschiedenis schreven in plaats van de overwinnaars, met dank aan de efficiëntste propagandamachine die ooit was gemaakt.’ Aldus de naamloze verteller in De sympathisant van de Amerikaans-Vietnamese schrijver Viet Thanh Nguyen. En inderdaad: in de jaren na de smadelijke […]
Squid and Prejudice
Racist Sandwich interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about his book and Vietnamese background. RS interviews Pulitzer Prize winning author and USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen about his new short story collection, what it was like working at his parents’ Vietnamese grocery store, and why he doesn’t write for white readers. Produced by Juan Ramirez. Music by […]
Autor de ‘O simpatizante’ diz que usa projeção do Pulitzer para falar de guerra, migração e política
Alessandro Giannini interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for O Globo. SÃO PAULO — Ganhador do Pulitzer de ficção no ano passado com seu romance de estreia, “O simpatizante” (que a Alfaguara lançou no Brasil no fim do mês passado), o professor e escritor Viet Thanh Nguyen publicou um novo livro — uma reunião de contos batizada “The […]
History is Not Over: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
In this interview for The Common, Alexander Bisley and Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss The Sympathizer and the refugee crisis. Author Viet Thanh Nguyen is on a hot streak. Since winning a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, his nonfiction collection Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War and this year’s short-story collection The Refugees have amassed acclaim. In an ultimately […]
Pacific Affairs Reviews Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Nguyễn Thị Điểu reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Originally published by Pacific Affairs. Decades ago, at the end of a devastating conflict, a flow of humanity, braving all dangers while paying a deadly price, fled Indochina to asylum countries where they resettled into new lives, their homelands branded into their […]
