Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Geland tussen twee werelden

Kris Mattheeuws reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Literair Nederland. De vluchtelingen Viet Thanh Nguyen Vertaling door: Paul Bruijn Verschenen bij: Uitgeverij Marmer (2018) ISBN: 9789460683770 240 pagina’s Prijs: € 19,99 Bestel     Elke dag worden we in het journaal overspoeld door verhalen over vluchtelingen. De vaak schrijnende en mensonwaardige omstandigheden zijn dagelijkse kost waar velen al […]

“The Refugees” by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The DC Public Library published a discussion guide for The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen, along with responses from D.C. residents.  For those reading The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen, here are discussion questions for each story in the book as well as conversations recorded by D.C. residents who read the story: “Black-eyed Women” The narrator of the […]

Pulitzer prize-winning author discusses refugee identity, storytelling

Aaron Baker of Michigan Daily reports on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s lecture about refugees and the Vietnamese perspective at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, a professor at the University of Southern California, spoke Tuesday to a packed Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre on the perceptions of refugees and the Vietnamese perspective of the […]

The conundrum of Asian-Americans: a conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Nisa Khan and Christian Paneda of Michigan in Color sits down with Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss Asian-Americans and his Vietnamese heritage.  “When I was your age, I was very conscious of myself as a Vietnamese American and Asian American, and I knew I was a refugee but I didn’t like go around calling myself […]

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 […]

Losing My Son to Reading

Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his feelings on the independence reading provides in relation to his young son in this opinion piece for The New York Times.  Books helped me gain independence. So it saddens me just a bit to see my son reading on his own. Do you remember when you learned to read? Like most […]

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/

Modern Language Association Publishes Forum on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Work

The Modern Language Association publishes a forum of articles on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s books in the PMLA March 2018 issue.      Articles Included: Slips and Slides by Sarah Chihaya Vietnam, the Movie: Part Deux by Sylvia Shin Huey Chong Un-American: Refugees and the Vietnam War by Yogiya Goyal The Lasting Lure of the Asian Mystery […]

The René Wellek Prize Citations 2017

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War co-wins the 2017 Rene Wellek Prize with Jeffrey Cohen’s Stone. The Rene Wellek Prize is annually awarded, respectively, to the best book overall in comparative literature. Article originally published by ACLA. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War is a clearly and […]