Viet Thanh Nguyen Explained

Viet Thanh Nguyen
Birth Name:Nguyễn Thanh Việt
Birth Date:13 March 1971
Birth Place:Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam
Nationality:American
Genre:novel, literary fiction, historical fiction, crime fiction, non-fiction
Notableworks:The Sympathizer (2015)
The Refugees (2017)
Spouse:Lan Duong
Children:2
Awards:Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2016)
MacArthur Genius Grant (2017)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2017)
Education:University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Berkeley (BA, PhD)

Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.[1]

Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,[2] the Dayton Literary Peace Prize,[3] the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize,[4] and many other accolades.

He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship[5] [6] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.[7] [8]

Nguyen is a regular contributor, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, covering immigration, refugees, politics, culture, and Southeast Asia.[9]

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[10] [11] and in 2020 was elected as the first Asian American member of the Pulitzer Prize Board in its 103-year-history.[12] [13] [14]

Early life and education

Nguyen was born in Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam in 1971.[15] He was the son of Linda Thanh Nguyen and Joseph Thanh Nguyen, refugees from North Vietnam who had moved south in 1954.[16] [17] Nguyen's mother's real name is Nguyễn Thị Bảy; she is a highly influential person in his life. In an excerpt from his book A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (2023), Nguyen writes: "People like Má who will not be remembered by History are also a part of History, drafted as reluctant players in horrific wars... Unlike soldiers, these civilians, many of them women and children, never get the recognition they deserve. Some endure more terror, see more horror, than some soldiers."[18] [19]

After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Nguyen's family fled to the United States.[20] They left behind Viet's 16-year-old adopted sister, whom he did not see again for nearly 30 years.[16] His family first settled in Fort Indiantown Gap, one of four American camps that accommodated refugees from Vietnam,[21] then moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, until 1978.[22] [23] San Jose, California was the Nguyen family's next destination, where his parents opened a Vietnamese grocery store called SàiGòn Mới,[24] one of the first of its kind in the area.[25] On Christmas Eve, when Nguyen was nine years old, his parents survived being shot during a robbery at their store.[26] [27] When he was 16, a gunman broke into the family's house and threatened them. Nguyen's mother ran into the street screaming for help and saved everyone's lives.[18] [28]

Seven years after arriving in America, Nguyen's older brother, Tung Thanh Nguyen (Nguyễn Thanh Tùng), whom he calls "the original refugee success story", entered Harvard University.[29] [30] Tung graduated four years later with a B.A. in philosophy,[31] and earned an M.D. in 1991 from Stanford University.[32] Tung Nguyen is the Stephen J. McPhee, MD Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.[33] [34] He also served as a Commissioner on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (2011–14) and as the Chair of the Commission (2014–17).[35] [36]

As a child, Nguyen often enjoyed reading literature about the Vietnam War, preferably those from the Vietnamese perspectives, which were rather rare at the time in comparison with the overwhelming amount of American narratives.[37] While growing up in San Jose, Nguyen attended St. Patrick School, a Catholic elementary school,[23] and Bellarmine College Preparatory.[38]

Nguyen attended UCLA for a quarter and the University of California, Riverside for a year before finishing his studies at the University of California, Berkeley.[39] [40] [41] He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Ethnic Studies.[42] [43] [44] At the age of 26, he earned a PhD in English from Berkeley in 1997.[45] [46]

Teaching career

In 1997, Nguyen moved to Los Angeles for a teaching position as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California in both the English Department, and in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department.[43] In 2003, he became an associate professor in the two departments.[47]

He was appointed the 2023 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University and presented a series of six lectures titled To Save and To Destroy: On Writing as an Other. His series is the first to be given in person on Harvard’s campus since 2018.[48]

In addition to teaching and writing, Nguyen serves as cultural critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times,[49] he is also the founder and editor of diaCRITICS, a blog for the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network.[50] [51]

Writing

Novels

Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer was published in 2015 by the Grove Press/Atlantic. The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[52] [53] The Sympathizer further won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association.[54] [55] The book additionally won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America,[56] and was a finalist in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,[57] and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.[58] The novel has also won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.[59] The New York Times included The Sympathizer among the Book Reviews "Editors' Choice" selection of new books when the book debuted,[60] and in its list of "Notable Books of 2015".[61] The novel also made it onto numerous other "Books of the Year" lists, including those of The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.[62] [63] Nguyen's second novel, The Committed, which continues the story of The Sympathizer, was published in 2021.[64]

Short stories

Nguyen's short fiction has been published in Best New American Voices 2007 ("A Correct Life"),[65] Manoa ("Better Homes and Gardens"),[66] [67] Narrative Magazine ("Someone Else Besides You", "Arthur Arellano", and "Fatherland",[68] which was a prize winner in the 2011 Winter Fiction Contest),[69] TriQuarterly ("The War Years" - Issue 135/136), The Good Men Project ("Look At Me"),[70] the Chicago Tribune ("The Americans", also a 2010 Nelson Algren Short Story Awards finalist),[71] and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize.[72]

In May 2008, Nguyen is one of the contributing authors of A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection published by OV Books, Other Voices, Inc.[73] In February 2017, Nguyen continued to collaborate with Grove Press to publish a book of short stories entitled The Refugees.[74]

Non-fiction

Nguyen is the editor of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, which includes essays by 17 fellow refugee writers from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, and Ethiopia, among other countries.[75]

Nguyen has also released a non-fiction book published by the Harvard University Press in March 2016 entitled Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, which served as a critical bookend to a creative project whose fictional bookend was The Sympathizer".[76] According to Nguyen's website, the book Nothing Ever Dies "examines how the so-called Vietnam War has been remembered by many countries and people, from the US to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea."[77] Kirkus Reviews has also called the book "a powerful reflection on how we choose to remember and forget."[78] The book is a National Book Award finalist.[79]

In 2002, Nguyen published a treatise entitled Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press).[80] Nguyen has also co-edited a treatise entitled Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014) along with Janet Hoskins.[81]

Nguyen's non-fiction articles and essays have appeared in journals and books, including PMLA, American Literary History, Western American Literature, positions: east asia cultures critique, The New Centennial Review, Postmodern Culture, The Japanese Journal of American Studies, and Asian American Studies After Critical Mass.[82] In an opinion column in the New York Times, Nguyen discussed having been a refugee and characterized refugees as heroic.[83]

Children's

Nguyen and illustrator Thi Bui, along with their respective children, collaborated on a children's book titled Chicken of the Sea.[84]

Personal life

In 2016, Nguyen spoke out for Palestinian rights by supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[85] In 2023, after Nguyen signed an open letter in the London Review of Books urging "an end to violence and destruction in Palestine," a Jewish organization at the 92nd Street Y canceled a scheduled reading by Nguyen without explanation.[86] After the cancellation, other authors pulled out of the centre's upcoming programming schedule,[87] and at least two 92NY employees resigned.[88] [89] On Instagram, Nguyen wrote: "I have no regrets about anything I have said or done in regards to Palestine, Israel, or the occupation and war".[90]

Nguyen is married to Lan Duong, a faculty member in cinema and media studies at USC and a poet, who also grew up in San Jose after coming to the United States as a young refugee.[91] They have two children and live in Pasadena, California.[92]

Bibliography

TypeTitleYearPublisherISBN
NovelsThe Sympathizer2015Grove PressPaperback:
Hardcover: 		[93]
The Committed2021Paperback:
Hardcover: 		[94]
Non-fictionRace and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America2002Oxford University PressPaperback:
Hardcover: 		[95]
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and The Memory of War2016Harvard University PressPaperback:
Hardcover: 		[96]
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial2023Grove PressHardcover: [97]
Short
stories		Better Homes and Gardens2002University of Hawaiʻi PressPaperback: [98]
A Correct Life2007HarcourtPaperback: [99]
The Other WomanUniversity of Houston[100]
Someone Else Besides You2008Narrative Magazine[101]
Arthur Arellano2010[102]
The War YearsNorthwestern University[103]
The AmericansChicago Tribune[104]
Look At Me2011The Good Men Project[105]
FatherlandNarrative Magazine[106]
Black-Eyed Women2015Cornell University (Reprinted)[107] [108]
The Refugees2017Grove PressPaperback:
Hardcover: 		[109]
Children's
book		Chicken of the Sea (with illustrator Thi Bui)2019McSweeney's PublishingHardcover: [110]

Accolades

Nguyen has also been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011–2012),[111] the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008–2009),[112] and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004–2005).[113] He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council,[114] the Djerassi Artists Residency, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Huntington Library, the James Irvine Foundation, the Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital.[115]

His teaching and service awards include the Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Junior Faculty Award for outstanding research, teaching and service, the Mellon Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students, the Resident Faculty of the Year Award,[116] and the General Education Teaching Award.[117] Multimedia has also been a key part of his teaching: In a recent course on the American War in Viet Nam, he and his students created An Other War Memorial,[118] which won a grant from the Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching and the USC Provost's Prize for Teaching With Technology.[119]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Race in America: History & Memory with Viet Thanh Nguyen . Washington Post Live . . March 15, 2021 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210042434/https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/03/15/race-america-history-memory-with-viet-thanh-nguyen/ . live.
  2. Web site: AP, Reuters, New York Times among 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners . Daniel . Trotta . Frank . McGurty . . April 19, 2016 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210073647/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pulitzer-prizes-idUSKCN0XF2J4/ . live.
  3. Web site: Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners announced . Local News . . October 11, 2016 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210074257/https://www.daytondailynews.com/entertainment/arts--theater/dayton-literary-peace-prize-winners-announced/hjbnJ0FupIRb1c74sHLPlJ/ . live.
  4. Web site: The Sympathizer Wins The Center for Fiction Award . Dianna . Dilworth . . December 11, 2015 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210080118/https://www.adweek.com/galleycat/the-sympathizer-wins-the-center-for-fiction-award . live.
  5. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen . . October 11, 2017 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209131235/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2017/viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  6. Web site: MacArthur 'genius grants' go to novelists Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jesmyn Ward . Alison . Flood . . October 11, 2017 . December 10, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209164223/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/11/macarthur-genius-grants-go-to-novelists-viet-thanh-nguyen-and-jesmyn-ward . live.
  7. Web site: 2017 Guggenheim fellows include artist Harry Dodge . Jessica . Gelt . . April 7, 2017 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210050013/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-guggenheim-fellows-20170407-story.html . live.
  8. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209181527/https://www.gf.org/fellows/viet-thanh-nguyen/ . live.
  9. Web site: Opinion Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209181833/https://www.nytimes.com/column/viet-thanh-nguyen . live. 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: Eleven faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences . . April 19, 2018 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210080843/https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/11-harvard-faculty-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/ . live.
  11. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209131546/https://www.amacad.org/person/viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  12. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen, 1st Asian American Pulitzer board member, on how his new role transcends literature . Victoria . Namkung . . September 29, 2020 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210083353/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/viet-thanh-nguyen-1st-asian-american-pulitzer-board-member-how-n1240844 . live.
  13. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board . Michael . Schaub . . September 8, 2020 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210084601/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/viet-thanh-nguyen-elected-to-pulitzer-prize-board/ . live.
  14. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board . . September 8, 2020 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210082303/https://www.pulitzer.org/news/viet-thanh-nguyen-elected-pulitzer-prize-board . live.
  15. Web site: First Fiction Spring 2015: Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Subversive Debut Adds a New Facet to an Old Story . Daniel . Lefferts . . January 9, 2015 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209181210/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/65235-first-fiction-spring-2015-viet-thanh-nguyen-a-subversive-debut-adds-a-new-facet-to-an-old-story.html . live.
  16. Web site: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Discusses 'The Sympathizer' And His Escape From Vietnam . Terry . Gross . . May 17, 2016 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209183309/https://www.npr.org/2016/05/17/478384200/author-viet-thanh-nguyen-discusses-the-sympathizer-and-his-escape-from-vietnam . live.
  17. Web site: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen's new memoir reflects on family's experience of war and exile . Jeffrey . Brown . Lena . I. Jackson . Madison . Staten . . October 31, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209183607/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/author-viet-thanh-nguyens-new-memoir-reflects-on-familys-experience-of-war-and-exile . live.
  18. Web site: San José-reared author Viet Thanh Nguyen honors his late mother's 'epic' life in his new memoir . Martha . Ross . . November 3, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210093911/https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/03/san-jose-reared-author-viet-thanh-nguyen-honors-his-late-mothers-epic-life-in-his-new-memoir/ . live.
  19. A Departure from Reality . Viet Thanh . Nguyen . . September 9, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210103112/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-departure-from-reality-viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  20. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee . CBC Radio . . October 2, 2016 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210091810/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/viet-thanh-nguyen-on-redefining-what-it-means-to-be-a-refugee-1.3779480 . live.
  21. Web site: Former Vietnamese refugee returns to Fort Indiantown Gap . Brad . Rhen . . May 19, 2022 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210091021/https://www.ftig.ng.mil/About-Us/News/Article/3036854/former-vietnamese-refugee-returns-to-fort-indiantown-gap/ . live.
  22. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen: Spy, Sympathizer, Son . Lauren . Christensen . . October 3, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209162402/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/books/viet-thanh-nguyen-man-of-two-faces.html . live.
  23. Web site: The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen . Beverly . Parayno . . March 8, 2017 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210093038/https://therumpus.net/2017/03/08/the-rumpus-interview-with-viet-thanh-nguyen-2/ . live.
  24. I Love America. That's Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It . Viet Thanh . Nguyen . . November 15, 2018 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210093614/https://time.com/subject/vietnam/ . live.
  25. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen is a 2017 MacArthur fellow for fiction and nonfiction . Agatha . French . . October 10, 2017 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210044726/https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-macarthur-fellows-nguyen-20171010-story.html . live.
  26. News: An audacious memoir from Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of 'The Sympathizer' . Lisa . Ko . . October 5, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210122631/https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/10/05/viet-thanh-nguyen-memoir-sympathizer/ . live.
  27. Web site: Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen says he's 'A Man of Two Faces' . Carol . Memmott . . October 9, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210132026/https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/writer-viet-thanh-nguyen-says-hes-a-man-of-two-faces/ . live.
  28. Web site: From colonialism to Covid: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the rise of anti-Asian violence . Viet Thanh . Nguyen . . April 3, 2021 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210135357/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/03/from-colonialism-to-covid-viet-thanh-nguyen-on-the-rise-of-anti-asian-violence . live.
  29. Web site: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen and How Winning the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction Changed His Life . Valerie . Takahama . . December 27, 2016 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218093740/https://orangecoast.com/feature/professor-fiction-author-viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  30. News: Viet Thanh Nguyen's 'The Refugees' couldn't come at a better time . Megan . Mayhew Bergman . . February 1, 2017 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218093523/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/viet-thanh-nguyens-the-refugees-couldnt-come-at-a-better-time/2017/01/31/675e0e92-e7fb-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html . live.
  31. Web site: Tung Nguyen, MD . UCSF Profiles . December 18, 2023 . December 14, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231214191859/https://profiles.ucsf.edu/tung.nguyen . live.
  32. Web site: Tung Nguyen . . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218100954/https://www.ucsfhealth.org/providers/dr-tung-nguyen . live.
  33. Web site: Tung Nguyen, MD . Department of Medicine - UCSF . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218102700/https://medicine.ucsf.edu/people/tung-nguyen . live.
  34. Web site: Get To Know: Tung Nguyen, MD . Medicine.UCSF.edu . . November 15, 2018 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218102505/https://cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2018/11/15/get-to-know-tung-nguyen-md.9272 . live.
  35. Web site: Faculty Interview: Tung Nguyen, MD . Oralia . Schatzman . Department of Medicine - UCSF . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218101639/https://medicine.ucsf.edu/about/faculty/faculty-interviews/faculty-interview-tung-nguyen-md . live.
  36. Web site: Tung Nguyen, MD . Department of Medicine - UCSF . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218110609/https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/people/tung-nguyen-md . live.
  37. Web site: Opinion The Great Vietnam War Novel Was Not Written by an American . Viet Thanh . Nguyen . . May 2, 2017 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209180836/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/opinion/vietnam-war-novel-was-not-written-by-an-american.html . live . 0362-4331.
  38. Web site: 2023 Graduate Ceremony Speaker - Viet Thanh Nguyễn, PhD . . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210141521/https://www.seattleu.edu/commencement/graduate-ceremony/ceremony-speaker/ . live.
  39. Web site: Interview with BA and Ph.D Alum Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 4, 2015 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210153718/https://wheelercolumn.berkeley.edu/2015/12/04/interview-with-ba-and-ph-d-alum-viet-nguyen/ . live.
  40. Web site: What Sparked This Pulitzer-Winning Novelist? Dual Life, 'Mind-Blowing' Berkeley & a Movie . M. V. Wood. . April 21, 2016 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210153515/https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/online/what-sparked-pulitzer-winning-novelist-dual-life-mind-blowing/ . live.
  41. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen . Seattle Arts & Lectures . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210153112/https://lectures.org/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-2/ . live.
  42. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210151310/https://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/plus/made-at-berkeley/viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  43. Web site: Who Is Viet Thanh Nguyen? . Cristina . Arreola . . April 18, 2016 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209170700/https://www.bustle.com/articles/155416-who-is-viet-thanh-nguyen-the-pulitzer-prize-winner-is-an-author-professor . live.
  44. Web site: Viet Nguyen . . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209170716/https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/viet-nguyen/ . live.
  45. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen on finding himself at Berkeley . . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210143531/https://light.berkeley.edu/o/viet-thanh-nguyen-on-finding-himself-at-berkeley/ . live.
  46. Web site: Weaving refugee's life into histories of U.S., Vietnam . Eileen . O’Grady . . September 12, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210150602/https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/09/viet-thanh-nguyen-to-deliver-norton-lectures/ . live.
  47. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen Wins Fiction Pulitzer Prize for Debut Novel, 'The Sympathizer' . Charles . Lam . . April 19, 2016 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210073359/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/viet-thanh-nguyen-wins-fiction-pulitzer-prize-debut-novel-sympathizer-n557831 . live.
  48. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen Gives His First Norton Lecture: 'On the Double, or Inauthenticity' . Hannah E. Gadway/Crimson Staff Writer . . September 28, 2023 . December 19, 2023 . December 19, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231219173205/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/28/viet-thanh-nguyen-norton-lecture-other-inauthenticity/ . live.
  49. Web site: Introducing the L.A. Times Critics-at-Large . Carolyn . Kellogg . . March 30, 2016 . December 10, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209170717/https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-times-critics-at-large-20160330-snap-htmlstory.html . live.
  50. Web site: How DiaCritics Creates a Platform for Diverse Vietnamese Voices From Abroad . Paul . Christiansen . . February 1, 2021 . December 21, 2023 . December 21, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231221063835/https://saigoneer.com/vietnam-literature/19550-how-diacritics-creates-a-platform-for-diverse-vietnamese-voices-from-abroad . live.
  51. Web site: Team - DVAN . Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210192301/https://dvan.org/team/ . dead.
  52. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for 'The Sympathizer' . Carolyn . Kellogg . . April 18, 2016 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209165133/https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-viet-thanh-nguyen-pulitzer-prize-fiction-sympathizer-20160418-story.html . live.
  53. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer: from overlooked to Pulitzer winner . Michelle . Dean . . April 18, 2016 . December 9, 2023 . October 14, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231014005537/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/18/viet-thanh-nguyen-the-sympathizer-pulitzer-overlooked . live.
  54. Web site: Who is Viet Thanh Nguyen? The Pulitzer Prize Winner is an Author & Professor . Cristina Marie Arreola . . April 17, 2016 . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210181657/https://pen.org/press-clip/who-is-viet-thanh-nguyen-the-pulitzer-prize-winner-is-an-author-professor/ . live.
  55. Web site: Dr. Viet Thanh Nguyen . . March 27, 2019 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218042054/https://odi.osu.edu/dr-viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  56. Web site: The Sympathizer Won a Pulitzer and an Edgar, and May Herald the Great Literary Convergence . Adam . Sternbergh . . May 3, 2016 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218044750/https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/sympathizer-heralds-the-literary-convergence.html . live.
  57. Web site: James Hannaham Wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction . John . Williams . . April 5, 2016 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218045403/https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/james-hannaham-wins-penfaulkner-award-for-fiction/ . live.
  58. Web site: 2016 PEN Literary Award Winners Make Great Recommendations . Liz . Button . . March 1, 2016 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218050816/https://www.bookweb.org/news/2016-pen-literary-award-winners-make-great-recommendations . live.
  59. Web site: Authors honored at Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony . . November 21, 2016 . December 13, 2023 . December 13, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231213021139/https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/marilynn-robinson-honored-dayton-literary-peace-prize-ceremony/CAX1efIu5zXvbyQWfbZVqN/ . live.
  60. Web site: Editors' Choice . . April 10, 2015 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209180330/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/books/review/editors-choice.html . live . 0362-4331.
  61. Web site: 100 Notable Books of 2015 . . November 27, 2015 . December 9, 2023 . November 29, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231129031001/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2015.html . live.
  62. Web site: All Book Marks reviews for The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215181035/https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/all/the-sympathizer/ . live.
  63. Web site: The Sympathizer (Pulitzer Prize Winner) . . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215181654/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-sympathizer-viet-thanh-nguyen/1120338727 . live.
  64. Web site: What to expect in Viet Thanh Nguyen's sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Sympathizer' . Agatha . French . . March 1, 2021 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209164929/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-03-01/viet-thanh-nguyen-the-committed-the-sympathizer . live.
  65. Book: Sue . Miller . John . Kulka . Natalie . Danford . Best New American Voices 2007 . 2006 . . 97–117 . 9780156031554 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218055529/https://books.google.com.vn/books?hl=vi&id=B5g1xwGh6UUC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Viet+Thanh+Nguyen . December 18, 2023 . live.
  66. Web site: Manoa-Volume 14, Number 1, 2002 . . July 6, 2022 . December 16, 2023 . July 6, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220706054342/https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/1196 . live.
  67. Web site: Manoa, vol. 14, no. 1 (2002): Two Rivers . UH Press . . May 2, 2002 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209160726/https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/manoa-vol-14-no-1-2002-two-rivers/ . live.
  68. Web site: Spring 2011 . . December 21, 2023 . December 21, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231221123347/https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/spring-2011 . live.
  69. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218052431/https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  70. Web site: Look at Me: A Short Story . February 19, 2011 . Viet Thanh Nguyen . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209133513/https://vietnguyen.info/2011/look-at-me . live.
  71. Web site: Why Algren awards matter . Elizabeth . Taylor . . December 17, 2010 . December 15, 2023 . July 5, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210705145829/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-1218-intro-essay-20101217-story.html . live.
  72. Web site: Gulf Coast Prizewinners of Yesteryear . . December 11, 2023 . August 18, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100818164223/https://gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=7&sn=15 . dead.
  73. Book: A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection. 9780976717737. Bierlein. Stacy. 2007. OV Books .
  74. Web site: Ghost Stories: Vietnamese Refugees Wrestle With Memory in a New Book by the Author of 'The Sympathizer' . Mia . Alvar . . February 13, 2017 . December 9, 2023 . October 14, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231014134130/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/books/review/refugees-viet-thanh-nguyen.html . live . 0362-4331.
  75. Book: Nguyen . Viet Thanh . The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives . 2018 . Abrams Press . 978-1419735110.
  76. Web site: 2019 Pen/Hemingway Award Ceremony . . April 7, 2019 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218061049/https://www.jfklibrary.org/node/366706 . live.
  77. Web site: Bio . Viet Thanh Nguyen . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209130752/https://vietnguyen.info/author-viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  78. Web site: Nothing Ever Dies Kirkus Reviews . . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209132417/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/viet-thanh-nguyen/nothing-ever-dies/ . live.
  79. The 2016 National Book Awards Finalists . The New Yorker . . October 6, 2016 . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218063336/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2016-national-book-awards-finalists . live.
  80. Book: Nguyen, Viet Thanh . April 18, 2002 . Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America . . 240 . 9780195146998 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218064009/https://academic.oup.com/book/10955 . December 18, 2023 . live.
  81. Book: Janet . Hoskins . Viet Thanh . Nguyen . Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field . . 236 . 9780824839987 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218065016/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-asian-studies/article/abs/transpacific-studies-framing-an-emerging-field-edited-by-janet-hoskins-and-viet-thanh-nguyen-honolulu-university-of-hawaii-press-2014-pp-236-isbn-10-0824839986-isbn-13-9780824839987/6C91B0C1A1B2B8D38A131FF8FB9DCDA3 . December 18, 2023 . live.
  82. Web site: Lecture Biographies – Mortenson Center for International Library Programs . . December 18, 2023 . December 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231218065758/https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/lectures/bios/ . live.
  83. Web site: The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry . Viet Thanh . Nguyen . . September 2, 2016 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209132207/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/opinion/the-hidden-scars-all-refugees-carry.html . live.
  84. Web site: Natalie Portman and Viet Thanh Nguyen talk kids books at L.A. Times Festival of Books . Julissa . James . . November 2, 2020 . December 16, 2023 . December 16, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216041657/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-11-02/natalie-portman-viet-thanh-nguyen-talk-kids-books-la-times-festival-of-books . live.
  85. Web site: Backing BDS: Another Pulitzer winner comes out for Palestinian rights . David . Palumbo-Liu . . June 22, 2016 . January 6, 2024 . January 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240106152350/https://www.salon.com/2016/06/22/backing_bds_another_pulitzer_winner_comes_out_for_palestinian_rights/?source=newsletter . live.
  86. Web site: 92nd Street Y cancels talk by Pulitzer-winning author who backs Palestinians . . October 22, 2023 . January 6, 2024 . December 5, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231205052516/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pulitzer-winner-who-backs-palestinians-says-talk-canceled-by-ny-jewish-2023-10-21/ . live.
  87. Web site: 92NY in tumult after canceling Israel-critical author event amid Israel-Hamas war . Andrew . Lapin . . October 27, 2023 . January 6, 2024 . January 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240106153750/https://www.timesofisrael.com/92ny-in-tumult-after-canceling-israel-critical-author-event-amid-israel-hamas-war/ . live.
  88. Web site: Staff at NYC cultural center resign after acclaimed author's event canceled . Andrew . Limbong . . October 24, 2023 . January 6, 2024 . January 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240106153859/https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1208204142/staff-at-nyc-cultural-center-resign-after-acclaimed-authors-event-canceled . live.
  89. Web site: Cultural figures find perils to speaking out and staying silent about Mideast crisis . Chloe . Veltman . . October 28, 2023 . January 6, 2024 . January 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240106194655/https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208445765/israel-palestine-cultural-fallout . live.
  90. Web site: UPenn donors were furious about the Palestine Writes Literature Festival. What about it made them pull their funds? . Ramishah . Maruf . . October 25, 2023 . January 6, 2024 . January 6, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240106192340/https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/25/business/palestine-writes-literature-festival-what-happened/index.html . live.
  91. News: Martha . Ross . 'Dirty stories': Vietnamese-American writer's refugee life in 1980s San Jose becomes poetry . . San Jose, California . June 22, 2023 . March 21, 2024 .
  92. Web site: He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too . Alexandra . Alter . . February 21, 2021 . December 9, 2023 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209131906/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/books/viet-thanh-nguyen-the-committed.html . live.
  93. Web site: For Viet Thanh Nguyen, Author of 'The Sympathizer,' a Pulitzer but No Peace . David . Streitfeld . . June 21, 2016 . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215183146/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/books/viet-thanh-nguyen-prizewinning-author-of-the-sympathizer-still-wrestles-with-apocalypse-now.html . live.
  94. Web site: Book excerpt: "The Committed" by Viet Thanh Nguyen . CBS News . . February 28, 2021 . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215184141/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-excerpt-the-committed-by-viet-thanh-nguyen/ . live.
  95. Web site: Race & Resistance : Literature & Politics in Asian America / Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215193555/https://onesearch.library.rice.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991022653779705251&context=L&vid=01RICE_INST:RICE . live.
  96. Web site: Nothing Ever Dies . . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215191318/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/viet-thanh-nguyen/nothing-ever-dies/ . live.
  97. News: An audacious memoir from Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of 'The Sympathizer' . Lisa . Ko . . October 5, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215190706/https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/10/05/viet-thanh-nguyen-memoir-sympathizer/ . live.
  98. Book: Thaxton, Charles . April 18, 2016 . An Early Short Story from Pulitzer-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen . . 171–180 . 9780824825812 . December 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209155331/https://daily.jstor.org/early-short-story-from-pulitzer-winner-viet-thanh-nguyen/ . December 9, 2023 . live.
  99. Book: Sue . Miller . John . Kulka . Natalie . Danford . October 2, 2006 . Best New American Voices 2007 . . 97–117 . 9780156031554 . December 16, 2023 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216084341/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sue-miller/best-new-american-voices-2007/ . December 16, 2023.
  100. Book: Gulf Coast, Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 2007/Spring 2008 . . 193–211 . December 16, 2023 . December 16, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216080453/https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/20.1/the-other-woman/ . live.
  101. Web site: Someone Else Besides You . Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 16, 2023 . July 31, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210731034608/https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2008/fiction/someone-else-besides-you-viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  102. Web site: Arthur Arellano . Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 16, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215082448/https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/spring-2010/fiction/arthur-arellano-viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  103. Book: TriQuarterly Issue 135/136 (Winter 2009/Spring 2010) . . 79–93 . December 16, 2023 . live . December 16, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216105718/https://www.triquarterly.org/issue-viewer#/243671#79.
  104. Web site: "The Americans" . Viet Thanh Nguyen . . December 17, 2010 . December 16, 2023 . March 24, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324014644/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/chi-books-algren-the-americans-htmlstory.html . live.
  105. Web site: Look at Me . Viet Thanh Nguyen . . February 19, 2011 . December 16, 2023 . December 16, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216065518/https://goodmenproject.com/fiction-2/look-at-me/ . live.
  106. Web site: "Fatherland" by Viet Thanh Nguyen from Why I Like This Story . Kao Kalia Yang . . December 16, 2023 . December 16, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216045040/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/why-i-like-this-story/fatherland-by-viet-thanh-nguyen/C8B5098F22A210EDAFD2A2BA179F2040 . live.
  107. Book: Epoch Volume 64, Number 2 (2015) . . 131–143 . December 16, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216112713/https://www.epochliterary.com/shop/p/volume-64-number-2 . December 16, 2023 . live.
  108. Web site: Black-Eyed Women . Viet Thanh Nguyen . . February 1, 2017 . December 16, 2023 . December 16, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231216082420/https://electricliterature.com/black-eyed-women-by-viet-thanh-nguyen/ . live.
  109. Web site: 'The Refugees': The past haunts the present for Vietnamese Americans . Michael . Upchurch . . February 9, 2017 . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215185644/https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/the-refugees-the-past-haunts-the-present-for-vietnamese-americans/ . live.
  110. Web site: 'Chicken Of The Sea' Is So Wacky — Of Course It Was Created By Kids . Samantha . Balaban . . December 29, 2019 . December 10, 2023 . December 11, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211025337/https://www.npr.org/2019/12/29/790930264/chicken-of-the-sea-is-so-wacky-of-course-it-was-created-by-kids . live.
  111. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen - ACLS . . December 11, 2023 . December 11, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211115156/https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/viet-thanh-nguyen/ . live.
  112. Web site: Viet Thanh Nguyen Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University . . December 10, 2023 . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210181410/https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/viet-thanh-nguyen . live.
  113. Web site: All Fellows . . December 11, 2023 . December 11, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211120020/https://fawc.org/all-fellows-static/ . dead.
  114. Web site: East-West Dialogue with Viet Thanh Nguyen & Tiffany Chung . . September 1, 2021 . December 11, 2023 . December 11, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211122415/https://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/about-acc/stories/east-west-dialogue-with-viet-thanh-nguyen-tiffany-chung . live.
  115. Web site: Pierce Lecture With Viet Thanh Nguyen - November 16 at 7:30 P.m. 10/28/21 . . December 11, 2023 . December 11, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211124257/https://www.pugetsound.edu/office-president/messages-president/messages-president-2021-22/pierce-lecture-viet-thanh-nguyen-november-16-730-pm-102821 . live.
  116. Web site: Living Writers Series Fall 2017 . . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215085320/https://creativewriting.ucsc.edu/news-events/living-writers-series/2017%20Fall%20Living%20Writers%20Series.html . live.
  117. Web site: Pulitzer Prize Board 2022-2023 . . December 15, 2023 . December 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231215085058/https://www.pulitzer.org/board/2023 . live.
  118. Web site: 'How Do Nations Remember Wars?' Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen is Trying to Find Out . Claire . Barrett . . May 28, 2021 . December 11, 2023 . December 11, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211130114/https://www.historynet.com/how-do-nations-remember-wars-professor-viet-thanh-nguyen-is-trying-to-find-out/ . live.
  119. Web site: Teaching With Technology . Kevin . Durkin . USC Dornsife . May 8, 2013 . December 11, 2023 . December 11, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211130412/https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/teaching-with-technology/ . live.

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