‘The Refugees’ – An Introduction to Viet Thanh Nguyen Literature
Nữ Lâm reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Zing. Tập truyện ngắn “Người tị nạn” là tác phẩm đầu tiên của nhà văn đoạt giải Pulitzer 2016 được chuyển ngữ tiếng Việt. Viet Thanh Nguyen là cái tên không còn xa lạ với bạn đọc thế giới. Ông là nhà văn đoạt giải thưởng Pulitzer […]
Paperback Row
Joumana Khatib adds Nothing Ever Dies by Viet Thanh Nguyen on Paperback Row’s 2017 book list for The New York Times. NOTHING EVER DIES: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen. (Harvard, $17.95.) “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory,” Nguyen notes in this study of the war […]
Esquire’s 50 Best Books of 2017
Angela Ledgerwood includes Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees on the Esquire list of the 50 best books of 2017. Whether you like your reading sexy and satirical or political and polarizing, these stand-out books are guaranteed to challenge the status quo and spark timely conversation. Whether you prefer your reading sexy and satirical, political and polarizing, or […]
The 10 Best Short Story Collections of 2017
Adam Vitcavage includes Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees on the Writer’s Bone list of the 10 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. George Saunders, the 21st century master of short stories, looks for a sense of a human being on the other side of the page. He says short stories are very hard work and oftentimes people […]
A fresh take on the Vietnam War
Bill Gates reflects on learning more about the Vietnamese experience on the Vietnam War through Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer on his blog, Gatesnotes. I didn’t know what to expect the first time I visited Vietnam. Although I’m a bit too young to have worried about my draft number, the Vietnam War cast a long […]
Uprooted by living souls, despite everything
Giovanni Leti reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Lucia Libri. “I rifugiati” di Viet Thanh Nguyen è una raccolta di racconti meno sperimentali e crudi del suo romanzo “Il simpatizzante”: storie di migranti sradicati e frastornati, ma non solo, che fanno i conti con la propria identità e con la perdita, storie minime ma potentissime […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
