The Vietnamese-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen has long written on themes of war, refugees and exile. He covers those directly and personally in a new memoir about his own family ...

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 ...

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 ...

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Thus opens Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies, which surveys the quieter, later ...

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Viet Thanh Nguyen never set out to write a memoir. The medium requires not only telling one's own story, but the stories of others who may not want them shared, like his own family. Nguyen, an author ...

Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, San Jose-reared novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen has become one of the leading voices of the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States. But he didn’t think his own ...

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 ...