After the Apocalypse
Christian Schroder reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer for Der Tagesspiegel. Tod auf dem Rollfeld: Viet Thanh Nguyen schickt in „Der Sympathisant“ einen Doppelagenten in den Vietnamkrieg. Das berühmte Schwarz-Weiß-Foto eines Hubschraubers, der auf dem Dach der amerikanischen Botschaft in Saigon Flüchtlinge aufnimmt, ist das Symbol einer Demütigung. Die größte Militärmacht der Welt hatte in Vietnam […]
USC Visions and Voices – A Conversation with John Cho and Viet Thanh Nguyen
John Cho and Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss Asian-American identity during this USC Visions and Voices event. A timely conversation on race, representation, and the arts between actor John Cho (Better Luck Tomorrow, American Pie, Harold & Kumar, and Star Trek) and Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen(The Sympathizer). Exploring their overlapping interests in film, literature, and Asian American representation, Cho […]
An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Michael LeMahieu and Angela Naimou interview Viet Thanh Nguyen about his novels for Contemporary Literature. VIET THANH NGUYEN Conducted by Michael LeMahieu and Angela Naimou Viet Thanh Nguyen is on a roll. In 2015, he published his first novel, The Sympathizer (Grove); it won the Pulitzer Prize and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. In […]
Spy with self-doubt
Danny Marques Marcalo reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by NDR. In vielen Büchern über den Vietnamkrieg geht es um die Erfahrungen amerikanischer Soldaten. In den USA hat vor zwei Jahren nun ein Roman aus vietnamesischer Perspektive für Furore gesorgt. Nun erscheint er auch in Deutschland. In “Der Sympathisant” erzählt Viet Thanh […]
Brown Refo, White Nasho
Stephen Pham reflects on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees and Australian immigration policies and attitudes for the Sydney Review of Books. Of course, I will be called racist but, if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country. A truly […]
Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction 2017
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees was featured in Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2017. KIRKUS REVIEW A collection of stories, most set amid the Vietnamese exile communities of California, by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer (2015). “We had passed our youth in a haunted country,” declares the narrator of the opening story, a ghostwriter […]
Anika Entre Libros Reviews: The Sympathizer
Jorge Riet reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published by Anika Entre Libros. Argumento: “El simpatizante“, de Viet Thanh Nguyen, es una novela que narra las vicisitudes de un espía vietnamita desde los días de la evacuación de Saigón tras la caída de Vietnam del Sur, pasando por los meses de su exilio en los […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
William B. Noseworthy reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Originally published by AsianCha. Nothing Ever Dies is the latest installment in an extended project by Viet Thanh Nguyen—who is probably best-known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Sympathizer—to provide an entirely new historical reading of the Vietnam Wars. As the […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen | Der Sympathisant
Review of The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Krimirezensionen. April 1975: Die revolutionären Truppen Nordvietnams erobern den Süden. Die Amerikaner ziehen sich überhastet zurück und gewähren einer kleinen Zahl privilegierter Einheimischer ebenfalls die Flucht. Mit dabei ist auch der Ich-Erzähler, Adjutant eines südvietnamesisichen Generals, aber in Wahrheit ein kommunistischer Spion. Er war ein wichtiger […]
In Tunnels where Ghosts Dwell: War, Memory, and Identity
Peter Admirand reviews Nothing Ever Dies for newbooks.asia. Viet Thanh Nguyen. 2016. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674663042 ‘Pack Your Bags.’ The Sergeant slapped the back of my father-in-law, a young marine at the time in the 1960s. ‘Pack your bags,’ the Sergeant grunted. The […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer and the Vietnam War in this interview with Robert Scheer of KCRW’s Scheer Intelligence. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author discusses his acclaimed novel and the legacy of the Vietnam War. USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Sympathizer and is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow. […]
The Awl: An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
An interview with Bryan Washington regarding refugee literature and American politics. Interview originally published on The Awl. This conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen took place a few days after he received a MacArthur “genius grant”. As the author of a Pulitzer prize-winning novel (The Sympathizer), and a collection of short stories (The Refugees), as well as a nonfiction work chronicling narratives of […]
Longreads: An Interview with Macarthur ‘Genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen on Longreads
2017 MacArthur fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses questions of justice, diversity in literature, and empathy across cultures in an interview with Catherine Cusick. Interview originally published by Longreads. Viet Thanh Nguyen had just gotten back from a summer in Paris when he received an unexpected phone call from a Chicago number. He didn’t recognize the […]
How a Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Thinks About Coffee, Screenplays and Facebook
In this interview for the Observer, Jimmy Soni asks Viet Thanh Nguyen about his writing process. This past week, Viet Thanh Nguyen was announced as one of the winners of this year’s MacArthur “Genius” Grants. It is the latest honor in a career that has taken Nguyen from writing screenplay drafts to winning the Pulitzer Prize for […]
A refugee writer wins a ‘genius grant’ for his depictions of the displaced
Carol Hills and Marco Werman of Public Radio International interview Viet Thanh Nguyen as a recipient of a MacArthur grant. Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen describes himself as “numb and shocked” after winning a MacArthur “genius grant.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sympathizer,” his debut novel, was cited by the MacArthur Foundation for “challenging popular depictions […]
