Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses growing up in the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam, and how writing and reading helped him cope with this difficult experience. He explains how his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

The Vietnamese American writer’s leap to the mainstream comes at a moment that demands his anti-colonialist perspective. Viet Thanh Nguyen was groaning. He couldn’t help it. He had already sat through ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a writer, scholar and activist. His best-selling novel "The Sympathizer" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2016. His other works include "The Committed," the 2021 sequel to ...

A sense of the other seeps through Viet Thanh Nguyen’s work, a place where war and memory play like discordant whispers, and defining one’s identity, especially for an immigrant or a refugee, can be ...

We are joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss his new book, A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial. Last week the 92NY, a major cultural institution in ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel “The Sympathizer” introduced readers to its unnamed protagonist, a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent navigating life, love, loyalty and espionage in ...

This post appears courtesy of Asia Society. After USC associate professor of American studies Viet Thanh Nguyen published two academic books, his agent suggested he try his hand at something else: a ...

Books are not inert tools of pedagogy. They are mind-changing, world-changing. By Viet Thanh Nguyen For Afghans, the war isn’t over simply because the United States declared it so. The nightmare doesn ...

As long as he can remember, author Viet Thanh Nguyen has been interested in how stories about his home country of Vietnam are told in America. In his own works, including the Pulitzer-winning novel ...