Viet Thanh Nguyen Is The Pro-Refugee Voice America Needs To Hear
The Huffington Post’s Claire Fallon interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen as a 2017 MacArthur Fellow and prolific author of Vietnamese-American experiences. “Those of us who are refugees and immigrants or who support them, we have to use every tool at our disposal, including our writing.” When it comes to the Vietnam War, Vietnamese refugees in America […]
Le Figaro Magazine Reviews The Sympathizer
The following is a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, originally published in the French-language newspaper, Le Figaro Magazine. LA GUERRE DU VIETNAM est finie. Et avec elle, son cortège de romans sur l’offensive du Têt, l’évacuation dramatique de Saïgon, autant d’images de fer et de feu abondamment diffusées par le cinéma. L’auteur du Sympathisant, Viet […]
The Afterlife of Agent Orange
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Originally published by Public Books. “All wars are fought twice,” writes Viet Thanh Nguyen in Nothing Ever Dies, “the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Even decades after the first war ends, the second war […]
Let Us Read Some Books Reviews The Sympathizer
Nadine and Alex, the duo behind the German-language blog Let Us Read Some Books, review Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Im April des Jahres 1975 wird eine Gruppe von südvietnamesischen Offizieren in letzter Sekunde aus Saigon ausgeflogen und in die USA gebracht. Unter ihnen befindet sich auch ein als Adjutant getarnter Spion des Nordens. Seine […]
Le Devoir Reviews The Sympathizer
Christian Desmeules writes a review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer for the French-language and Montreal-based publication, Le Devoir. Depuis l’évacuation de Saigon en 1975 et les derniers jours de la république du Vietnam jusqu’au tournage du film Apocalypse Now à la fin de la même décennie, Viet Thanh Nguyen emprunte une perspective américaine plutôt rare sur la guerre du […]
Les Lettres Françaises Reviews The Sympathizer
Jean-Pierre Han comments on the destabilizing turns Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer takes in this review for Les Lettres Françaises. D’un Vietnamien ayant quitté son pays avec ses parents au moment de la libération de Saïgon par les forces communistes et alors qu’il n’avait que quatre ans, réfugié aux États-Unis depuis, parfaitement intégré au point […]
The Forgotten Victims of Agent Orange
This New York Times article, co-authored with Richard Hughes, confronts the lack of recognition and reparations for the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. Phan Thanh Hung Duc, 20, lies immobile and silent, his midsection covered haphazardly by a white shirt with an ornate Cambodian temple design. His mouth is agape and his chest thrusts upward, his […]
Sábado Reviews The Sympathizer
Eduardo Pitta reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen for the Portuguese publication, Sábado. O autor vietnamita ganhou o Pulitzer de Ficção com este romance de estreia, que chegou agora às livrarias portuguesas Com O Simpatizante, o seu primeiro livro, Viet Thanh Nguyen (n. 1971) ganhou o Pulitzer de Ficção 2016. Nguyen tem origem vietnamita, mas […]
„Ich bin ein angry Asian American“
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the The Sympathizer and the American Vietnam narrative in an interview with Katharina Borchardt for taz. Viet Thanh Nguyen: Vielen Dank. Ich freue mich sehr über den Preis. Ich bin aber auch froh, dass gerade ein Buch ausgezeichnet wurde, das den Vietnamkrieg von verschiedenen Seiten beleuchtet. Wird der Krieg denn zu einseitig […]
Viet kieu
In this interview for KUOW, Thanh Tan discusses the long-term effects of the Vietnam War with Viet Thanh Nguyen and others. Ever realize there is more to your family’s past than you’ve been told? Welcome to Second Wave, an American story that begins in Vietnam. http://kuow.org/post/viet-kieu After her father was falsely accused of being a […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen : “Hollywood est raciste”
Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer with Doan Bui in an interview for Bibliobs. Avec “le Sympathisant”, le prix Pulitzer 2016 publie un roman férocement drôle sur la Guerre du Vietnam. Entretien. Les Vietnamiens vivent avec les fantômes, j’en sais quelque chose. A la porte de la maison des parents de Viet Thanh Nguyen, Américano-Vietnamien, il […]
A Vietnamese Janus
André Clavel reviews The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Originally published on Le Temps. Avec «Le Sympathisant», son premier roman, Viet Thanh Nguyen a décroché d’emblée un Prix Pulitzer. Il plonge un double regard, à la fois asiatique et américain sur la guerre du Vietnam La guerre du Vietnam, ce sont de funestes relents de […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Vietnam war refugee Nguyen on US identity
Eve Jackson and Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses The Sympathizer as well as the Hollywood-isation of the Vietnam War for France 24. From ‘Apocalypse Now’ to ‘Platoon’, from Graham Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ to Michael Herr’s ‘Dispatches’, when you consider the so-called ‘best’ books and films about the Vietnam War, few come from Vietnamese voices. […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen, War Memoirs and Pulitzer 2016
Olivia Gesbert interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen for France Culture ahead of the French release of The Sympathizer. Full podcast here. Olivia Gesbert reçoit l’écrivain Viet Thanh Nguyen à l’occasion de la parution en français du Prix Pulitzer de la fiction “Le Sympathisant” (Belfond) Comment appartenir à deux pays, lorsque l’un est impérialiste (les Etats-unis), et l’autre sans […]
The Best Books, Shows, Films and Podcasts of 2017 for History Lovers
The staff at History names Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees as one of the best books of 2017 for history lovers. As 2017 slips into the history books, take a look back at the year in culture—with the best new releases that drew from the past. Whatever medium your personal passion might be, these movies, books, TV […]
