Spies Like Us: A Professor Undercover in the Literary Marketplace
Timothy K. August discusses The Sympathizer and other novels by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this review for Literature Interpretation Theory. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize win has fundamentally changed the way Vietnamese American writing is read. Or at least Nguyen is actively trying to change the way that Vietnamese American writing is read. Leveraging the access that […]
How Viet Thanh Nguyen found his voice
Colleen Walsh writes about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s discussion about identity, politics, and politics in his books Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Sympathizer’ novelist returns to Radcliffe for reading, discussion He is haunted by conflict between country and culture, revolution and redemption, embrace and exclusion, and, perhaps most of all, between a yearning […]
IN CONVERSATION WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN: ON DIASPORA & CULTURE AS PLURALITY
Dao Strom discusses the founding of diaCRITICS and the Vietnamese culture with Viet Thanh Nguyen in this interview. This is a conversation interview conducted by Dao Strom, new editor of diaCRITICS, with Viet Thanh Nguyen, author, founder and publisher of diaCRITICS. IN CONVERSATION WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN: DS: When did you start diaCRITICS? Can you tell us […]
2017-2018 AWARDS WINNERS
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees wins Honorable Mention in the Adult Fiction category for the 2017-2018 APALA Awards. Original article published by APALA. Adult Fiction Honor: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press), 2017 Pulitzer Prize and last year’s APALA Adult Fiction Literature Award winner Viet Thanh Nguyen further demonstrates his literary prowess with The Refugees, his […]
Everyone gets what they deserve in this Vietnam novel
This German review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer by Katharina Borchardt was originally published by Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Sprachlich lässt er es krachen, inhaltlich ist er informiert und sattelfest. Mit seinem Roman «Der Sympathisant» setzt Viet Thanh Nguyen einen markanten Kontrapunkt zur amerikanischen Sicht auf den Vietnamkrieg. Er ist ein Bastard. Schon seit frühester Kindheit wird dem […]
What I’ve learned from my 4-year-old
Originally published in the New York Times. LOS ANGELES — A bathroom at 4:45 a.m. is quiet. I try to wake at this time, three hours before my 4-year-old son does, so I can write, even in a hotel bathroom. I have not checked email, Twitter or Instagram, and last year I got off Facebook. I […]
Remembering One Another’s Inhumanity: On Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Vietnam War
This review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies and The Sympathizer by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu was featured in Volume 52, Issue 1 of the Journal of American Studies. “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory” (Nothing Ever Dies, 4). Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, begins […]
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Writing About Refugees
In this interview for Aspen Words, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the challenges of writing The Refugees and the power of writing. Aspen Words will confer the inaugural $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize this year, recognizing a work of fiction with social impact. Twenty nominees are still in the running, and the diverse list includes 12 novels and eight short […]
Forgetting and Remembering
In this interview for Jacobin Magazine, Yahya Chaudhry and Viet Nguyen discuss the self-serving stories the US state tells about the Vietnam War. “I come here mindful of the past, mindful of our difficult history,” Barack Obama said during a May 2016 visit to Vietnam, “but focused on the future — the prosperity, security, and human dignity that […]
The eyes silent to see the wound
Nguyen Vinh Nguyen reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Tuổi Trẻ. TTCT – Ấy là khi con mắt nhìn vào vết thương cộng đồng vừa như kẻ dự phần nhưng vừa đứng cao hơn mọi định kiến để thấy đó là một mối cơ khổ phổ quát của nhân loại khi chiến tranh, đói […]
Nguyen Thanh Viet – Refugees
In this review for Tiếp Thị Thế Giới, Ngân Hà discusses The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Phần lớn người Việt Nam đọc sách, xem phim, hay bất kỳ một tác phẩm nghệ thuật nào đều thích có “thông điệp” – nó là một từ phổ biến đến nỗi ngay khi một người bạn biết tôi […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer: Two Hearts in My Chest
Marius of Buch-Haltung reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Originally published on the Buch-Haltung website. Ich bin ein Spion, ein Schläfer, ein Maulwurf, ein Mann mit zwei Gesichtern. Da ist es vielleicht kein Wunder, dass ich auch ein Mann mit zwei Seelen bin. (Nguyen, Viet Thanh, Der Sympathisant, S. 9) Was für ein Einstieg in den Roman Der […]
21 books we loved in 2017
Amy Wang of Oregon Live reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Refugees” (Grove Atlantic, 240 pages, $16) This collection of short stories is thematically united around the experience of Vietnamese immigrants following the Vietnam War, but in every other way differs beautifully in its approach (sometimes realist, as in “The […]
Vietnamese-American Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Releases ‘The Refugees’
Hà Thu reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for VnExpress. Tập truyện ngắn “The Refugees” của Nguyễn Thanh Việt ra mắt ở Việt Nam trong tháng 12. Nhà văn gốc Việt giành giải Pulitzer văn chương Người tị nạn (tên gốc: The Refugees) xuất bản ở Mỹ hồi đầu năm. Tác phẩm gồm tám truyện ngắn, viết về […]
‘The Refugees’ of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who was born in Vietnam
Tiểu Vũ reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Một Thế Giới. Tác phẩm “Người tị nạn” của nhà văn gốc Việt đoạt giải Pulitzer 2016 được chuyển ngữ tiếng Việt và phát hành tại Việt Nam từ cuối tháng 12 này. Người tị nạn (The Refugees) là tác phẩm đầu tiên của Viet Thanh Nguyen […]
