Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the 'deep well' of anti-Asian racism in the ...
Mar 18, 2021Nguyen said growing up in the 1970s and '80s, watching movies about the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese were depicted as people to be mocked and — before they were killed — to be silenced. Tha
In this interview, by addressing the issues of war, the refugee experience and memory in his writing, Viet Thanh Nguyen holds that ethics of memory is a just way to confront the traumatic past, preven
Jul 1, 2022That's where we began our conversation when I reached him at home in Los Angeles. At the end of The Sympathizer, the hero has an epiphany when he says he "became enlightened," and it's a si
In his nonfiction treatise on memory and the Vietnam War, Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen invokes the German writer W. G. Sebald's concept of "secondhand memory"—the impact of war and trauma on t
"Remembering and Forgetting": An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen 9.25.2018 Lives & Histories Since the 2015 publication of his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen ..
An interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen Author Thanh Việt Nguyễn's discusses why he decided to set the record straight about the Vietnam war with his debut novel, The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulit
An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen. The MacArthur-winning novelist on refugee literature and American politics. by Bryan Washington October 17, 2017. This conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen took pla
Timothy Tau interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen about writing and story-making in this article for Hyphen Magazine. I recently got the chance to sit down and talk with Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen about his m
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Because I grew up in the United States as a refugee from Vietnam. I was born in Vietnam but I came here when I was four. And I grew up well aware of how Americans thought about thei
Mar 2, 2021Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses the challenges of writing his second novel, The Committed, and why trusting readers can make for a more compelling narrative in thi
Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen: Yes, I think it's alive for everybody who was old enough to remember that experience. I have not met a single Vietnamese American who lived through that time with a...
Join us for this special interview with acclaimed author, Viet Thanh Nguyen!Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and ...
Viet Thanh Nguyen Interviews Ocean Vuong at LARB By Harriet Staff Photo by Peter Bienkowski Read a transcript from Nguyen and Vuong 's live conversation at the Los Angeles Public Library, which took p
Aug 24, 2020We wanted to post a transcript of our interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen along with some reading for people who might be interested in what we discussed. A quick primer: We talked at length
Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for his debut novel, The Sympathizer. Here, he talks to our Executive Director, Noreen Tomassi, about developing the narrator's voic
The Refugees' Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen shares memories of being a refugee from South Vietnam.» ... The Refugees' Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen shares ...
May 17, 2016NGUYEN: I think I stayed with two families, if I remember right. And I think the first family was in a mobile home. They were young. They had no idea what to do with me. And now being the
An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen - JOEL WHITNEY NOTHING EVER DIES: VIET THANH NGUYEN "If America's soul becomes totally poisoned," said Martin Luther King in 1967, "part of the autopsy must read 'V
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Jeffrey Brown about his latest novel, "The Refugees" at the 2017 AWP Book Fair.FROM THE PUBLISHER:Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympat...
Apr 11, 2015The Sympathizer. by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Paperback, 393 pages. purchase. The Captain, a Communist sympathizer who's risen through the ranks of the South Vietnamese Army, has a confession: I
Mar 6, 2021Interview Viet Thanh Nguyen: 'I always felt displaced no matter where I was' Ashish Ghadiali The Pulitzer-winning author on difficult second novel syndrome, using humour to explore trauma,
Mar 22, 2021VIET THANH NGUYEN: Well, I'm coming to you from Los Angeles. And one of the worst mass lynchings in American history happened here in downtown Los Angeles in 1871, when a mob of about 500
Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the United States as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old. At the time of the interview below, his own son was about the same age. Today, Nguyen is an award-winn
ALEXANDER BISLEY interviews VIET THANH NGUYEN Author Viet Thanh Nguyen is on a hot streak. Since winning a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, his nonfiction collection Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam
Feb 27, 2021Author Interviews Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Discusses 'The Sympathizer' And His Escape From Vietnam On whether his narrator is still with him Oh, yes. I've been with him a long time, and it
Viet Thanh Nguyen Calls Out America's Tragic History of Anti-Asian Violence Viet Thanh Nguyen addresses the rise in anti-Asian violence in America, his book The Committed and writing a book with ...
Mar 11, 2021The promise and problems of the protagonist of Viet Thanh Nguyen's two novels—2015's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer and 2021's sequel, The Committed—spring from his two faces. He i
Mar 15, 2021Author Viet Thanh Nguyen's debut novel, "The Sympathizer," about a communist double agent after the Vietnam War, won a Pulitzer Prize among many other accolades. On Monday, March 15 at 2 .
