Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he is also a member of the steering committee for the Center for Transpacific Studies. The Vietnamese-American novelist is the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winner for his novel The Sympathizer and a 2017 MacArthur fellow.
Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Sympathizer The Pulitzer Prize-winning author discusses his acclaimed novel and the legacy of the Vietnam War.
LA's Viet Thanh Nguyen and Yuval Sharon on becoming MacArthur 'Geniuses' Four of the MacArthur fellows this year are from Los Angeles. They include theater artist Taylor Mac, painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and opera director Yuval Sharon. Each will receive a so-called genius grant worth $625,000.
Viet Thanh Nguyen on being a refugee and being unwanted Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new short story collection, “The Refugees,” focuses on people living between two worlds — how they switch identities and navigate issues of love, family and immigration. Nguyen talks about his personal sense of being a refugee, and points out the important difference between an immigrant and a refugee.
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet Thanh Nguyen was recently named this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel, “The Sympathizer.” Unlike almost all other American books or films about the Vietnam war, the novel’s main characters are Vietnamese, but the book’s protagonist is not clearly defined. He’s half Vietnamese and half European.
'The Sympathizer' There are plenty of films and books depicting the horrors of the Vietnam War. But most look at it from the American perspective. Author Viet Thanh Nguyen took the Vietnamese position in his tragicomic novel The Sympathizer. The main character is a half-European, half-Vietnamese spy placed in Saigon at the end of the war.
“The Sympathizer” offers fresh look at Vietnam War Forty years ago marked the definitive end to the Vietnam War. The Americans evacuated and on April 30th , Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese communist forces. Viet Thanh Nguyen was four years old. His family escaped Saigon and came to the United States as refugees in 1975.
El Chapo trial: $100 million bribes and nighttime sewer escapes There’s been plenty of drama this week at the El Chapo trial, where it was revealed that he allegedly bribed a Mexican president. He also performed a movie-like escape in the dead of night as agents came to arrest him.
Preparing LA buildings for the Big One On January 17, 1994, Angelenos were awoken at around 4:30 am by the earth shaking beneath us. The Northridge earthquake and its aftershocks killed 57 people, injured thousands, and toppled and damaged tens of thousands of buildings.
