Viet Thanh Nguyen
Pulitzer Prize winner of THE SYMPATHIZER; National Book Award finalist NOTHING EVER DIES; THE REFUGEES; THE COMMITTED; and A MAN OF TWO FACES
Altadena Poets Laureate Poetry & Cookies 20th Anniversary - Altadena Library District
Altadena Poets Laureate Poetry & Cookies 20th Anniversary - Altadena Library District
Join us for a book festival that honors two decades of poetry, community, and creativity—featuring readings, book displays, and appearances by local poets and indie presses.. Event starts at April 25, 2026 3:00 PM PDT
Viet's Official Website
Viet's Official Website
Donate - DVAN
Donate - DVAN
Spotlight
2026 Rutgers Living History Society Annual Meeting
2026 Rutgers Living History Society Annual Meeting
The Rutgers Oral History Archives, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Hisham Matar & Viet Thanh Nguyen Discuss To Save and To Destroy & My Friends | Brooklyn Public Library
Hisham Matar & Viet Thanh Nguyen Discuss To Save and To Destroy & My Friends | Brooklyn Public Library
BPL Presents is excited to welcome two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Viet Thanh Nguyen & Hisham Matar, who discuss their latest works—To Save and To Destroy and My Friends—while connecting over their most urgent aesthetic & social questions and their most ardent literary pursuits.
RSVP Form: "Asian Americans & Palestine" with Viet Nguyen & Martin Manalansan
RSVP Form: "Asian Americans & Palestine" with Viet Nguyen & Martin Manalansan
ÁCCENTED | Trailblazing in Real Time: Vietnamese Women in the Public Eye Tickets, Friday, April 17 • 1 AM - 2:30 AM UTC | Eventbrite
ÁCCENTED | Trailblazing in Real Time: Vietnamese Women in the Public Eye Tickets, Friday, April 17 • 1 AM - 2:30 AM UTC | Eventbrite
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane | Who We Are: Stories That Shape a Nation | Stacey Abrams, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. + Viet Thanh Nguyen | Moderated by: Charles M. Blow
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane | Who We Are: Stories That Shape a Nation | Stacey Abrams, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. + Viet Thanh Nguyen | Moderated by: Charles M. Blow
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane | Lives Lived, Stories Told | John T. Edge, Nicholas Lemann + Viet Thanh Nguyen | Moderated by: Anna Adams
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane | Lives Lived, Stories Told | John T. Edge, Nicholas Lemann + Viet Thanh Nguyen | Moderated by: Anna Adams
ÁCCENTED | Solidarity in Diaspora: From Vietnam to Palestine Tickets, Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
ÁCCENTED | Solidarity in Diaspora: From Vietnam to Palestine Tickets, Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
The Story of Us - The New McCarthyism: Why Authoritarians Fear Storytellers Tickets, Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
The Story of Us - The New McCarthyism: Why Authoritarians Fear Storytellers Tickets, Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Upcoming Events
ÁCCENTED: Bao Nguyen in Conversation With Viet Thanh Nguyen Tickets, Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM | Eventbrite
ÁCCENTED: Bao Nguyen in Conversation With Viet Thanh Nguyen Tickets, Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM | Eventbrite
Join DVAN for our 51st episode of ÁCCENTED, featuring award-winning filmmaker Bao Nguyen in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen!
Books
The Cleaving - Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Cleaving - Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Cleaving brings together Vietnamese artists and writers from around the world in conversation about their craft and how their work has been shaped and received by mainstream culture and their own communities. This collection highlights how Vietnamese diasporic writers speak about having been cleaved—a condition in which they have been separated from, yet still hew to, the country that they have left behind.
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer tells of a communist spy in the Vietnam War’s aftermath. Black comedy, literary thriller, and historical novel, The Sympathizer was a New York Times bestseller and the debut of 2016. Winner of eight book awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and Edgar Award, The Sympathizer is, in Maxine Hong Kingston’s words, “a magnificent feat of storytelling.”
Interviews
After Words with Viet Thanh Nguyen
After Words with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen reflected on how society can build allegiances beyond racial identity and have more global solidarity. He was interviewed by author Ijeoma Oluo.
Viet Thanh Nguyen on 50 Years After Vietnam War, Trump’s “Ugly American” Politics, El Salvador & More
Viet Thanh Nguyen on 50 Years After Vietnam War, Trump’s “Ugly American” Politics, El Salvador & More
We mark 50 years since the end of the U.S. war on Vietnam with the acclaimed Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese troops took control of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon as video of U.S. personnel being airlifted out of the city were broadcast around the world. Some 3 million Vietnamese people were killed in the U.S. war, along with about 58,000 U.S. soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of Lao, Hmong and Cambodians also died, and the impact of the
Why now is the time to find power in "otherness" : Code Switch
Why now is the time to find power in "otherness" : Code Switch
Start the Week - Crossing borders and belonging - BBC Sounds
Start the Week - Crossing borders and belonging - BBC Sounds
After Words with Viet Thanh Nguyen
After Words with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Art, violence and resistance: Raoul Peck and Viet Thanh Nguyen
Art, violence and resistance: Raoul Peck and Viet Thanh Nguyen
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen's new memoir reflects on family's experience of war and exile
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen's new memoir reflects on family's experience of war and exile
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Libraries should 'expand' young minds not 'contain' them - CNN Video
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Libraries should 'expand' young minds not 'contain' them - CNN Video
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen says upbringing inspired new memoir, "A Man of Two Faces"
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen says upbringing inspired new memoir, "A Man of Two Faces"
PBS News Hour | Viet Thanh Nguyen's Brief But Spectacular take on Writing and Memory
PBS News Hour | Viet Thanh Nguyen's Brief But Spectacular take on Writing and Memory
Amna Nawaz talks to Viet Nguyen about anti-Asian violence
Amna Nawaz talks to Viet Nguyen about anti-Asian violence
YouTube
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Asian American Identity Sparks Radical Unity
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Asian American Identity Sparks Radical Unity
This is a powerful narrative of identity and community! #AsianAmericanIdentity #RadicalUnity #CulturalDiscovery #VietThanhNguyen #CommunityEngagement #Divers...
Five Decades in Diaspora: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen & An-My Le
Five Decades in Diaspora: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen & An-My Le
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
A Reading for the Edward Said Libraries with Mosab Abu Toha & Friends
A Reading for the Edward Said Libraries with Mosab Abu Toha & Friends
Norton Lecture 4: On Crossing Borders | Viet Thanh Nguyen
Norton Lecture 4: On Crossing Borders | Viet Thanh Nguyen
146 - Viet Thanh Nguyen - Pulitzer Prize Author and Scholar
146 - Viet Thanh Nguyen - Pulitzer Prize Author and Scholar
THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen | Book Review (NO SPOILERS)
THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen | Book Review (NO SPOILERS)
Talking with Seth Meyers about anti-Asian violence, The Committed, and Chicken of the Sea
Talking with Seth Meyers about anti-Asian violence, The Committed, and Chicken of the Sea
Watch my love letter to my parents, their grocery store, the Vietnamese in San Jose and Vietnamese refugees everywhere on CBS
Watch my love letter to my parents, their grocery store, the Vietnamese in San Jose and Vietnamese refugees everywhere on CBS
Palestine
inara.org
inara.org
The Wall Street Journal | What Makes a Trip Memorable: Your Destination or Your Travel Companion?
The Wall Street Journal | What Makes a Trip Memorable: Your Destination or Your Travel Companion?
“We Need a Ceasefire”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Gaza & Israel’s Dehumanization of Palestinians
“We Need a Ceasefire”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Gaza & Israel’s Dehumanization of Palestinians
Viet Thanh Nguyen broke a BDS rule. Now he is its vocal advocate
Viet Thanh Nguyen broke a BDS rule. Now he is its vocal advocate
Palestine Is in Asia: An Asian American Argument for Solidarity
Palestine Is in Asia: An Asian American Argument for Solidarity
Memory, History, Identity: From Viet Nam to Palestine | CAT Conversations
Memory, History, Identity: From Viet Nam to Palestine | CAT Conversations
USC: This is a teachable moment - Daily Trojan
USC: This is a teachable moment - Daily Trojan
Can We Talk About Palestine?
Can We Talk About Palestine?
Poetry for Palestine Donation Drive and Book Auction
Poetry for Palestine Donation Drive and Book Auction
#BooksforGaza
#BooksforGaza
Doctor details struggles and horrors of working in a Gaza hospital
Doctor details struggles and horrors of working in a Gaza hospital
Only outside pressure can stop Israel’s war crimes | Naomi Klein
Only outside pressure can stop Israel’s war crimes | Naomi Klein
Can We Talk About Palestine?
Can We Talk About Palestine?
Now is a Time to Speak: An Open Letter to the 92nd Street Y
Now is a Time to Speak: An Open Letter to the 92nd Street Y
As Gaza crumbles, those speaking up for innocent Palestinians are being silenced and sacked | Owen Jones
As Gaza crumbles, those speaking up for innocent Palestinians are being silenced and sacked | Owen Jones
92NY Halts Literary Series After Pulling Author Critical of Israel
92NY Halts Literary Series After Pulling Author Critical of Israel
92NY Pulls Event With Acclaimed Writer Who Criticized Israel
92NY Pulls Event With Acclaimed Writer Who Criticized Israel
An Open Letter on the Situation in Palestine · LRB 18 October 2023
An Open Letter on the Situation in Palestine · LRB 18 October 2023
ÀCCENTED
ÁCCENTED | The Make Believers: New Year, New Drafts Tickets, Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
ÁCCENTED | The Make Believers: New Year, New Drafts Tickets, Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Join DVAN for our 52nd episode of ÁCCENTED, featuring writers Thi Bui and Vu Tran in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Philip Nguyen!
ÁCCENTED #50 | Ocean Vuong in Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen - YouTube
ÁCCENTED #50 | Ocean Vuong in Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen - YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
ÁCCENTED Podcast | Apple Podcasts
ÁCCENTED Podcast | Apple Podcasts
ÁCCENTED Podcast | Spotify
ÁCCENTED Podcast | Spotify
ÁCCENTED #34 | Stories From the Highlands - DVAN
ÁCCENTED #34 | Stories From the Highlands - DVAN
The Sympathizer
Book to Screen: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Adapting The Sympathizer - National Museum of Asian Art
Book to Screen: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Adapting The Sympathizer - National Museum of Asian Art
Get ticketsJoin author Viet Thanh Nguyen for a discussion about adapting his Pulitzer Prize–wi
Sandra Oh and Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on HBO's 'The Sympathizer'
Sandra Oh and Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on HBO's 'The Sympathizer'
How the creators of HBO's 'The Sympathizer' explore the 'American War' through a Vietnamese lens
How the creators of HBO's 'The Sympathizer' explore the 'American War' through a Vietnamese lens
How 'The Sympathizer' Counters 50 Years of Hollywood Vietnam War Narratives
How 'The Sympathizer' Counters 50 Years of Hollywood Vietnam War Narratives
How Robert Downey Jr. Helped ‘The Sympathizer’ Pull Off an Audacious, Ferocious Adaptation
How Robert Downey Jr. Helped ‘The Sympathizer’ Pull Off an Audacious, Ferocious Adaptation
A Man of Two Faces
NO PAYWALL The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Nation)
NO PAYWALL The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Nation)
Viet Thanh Nguyen on A MAN OF TWO FACES
Podcast
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Podcast
Viet Thanh Nguyen on A MAN OF TWO FACES
Podcast Episode · Poured Over · November 7, 2023 · 49m
Viet Thanh Nguyen-A Man of Two Faces
Viet Thanh Nguyen-A Man of Two Faces
The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Many Faces of Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen on A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Viet Thanh Nguyen on A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Features
Greater America Has Been Exporting Disunion for Decades
Greater America Has Been Exporting Disunion for Decades
So why are we still surprised when the tide of blood reaches our own shores? Some personal reflections on Marco Rubio and me—and the roots of Trump’s imperial ambitions.
Financial Times: Why Trump Fears Los Angeles (Gift Link)
Financial Times: Why Trump Fears Los Angeles (Gift Link)
LA Protests TOWN HALL: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Answers Your Questions
LA Protests TOWN HALL: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Answers Your Questions
Saying What Must Not Be Said – Viet Thanh Nguyen on Palestine, Liberation, and Justice
Saying What Must Not Be Said – Viet Thanh Nguyen on Palestine, Liberation, and Justice
Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen: ‘I’m a utopian’
Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen: ‘I’m a utopian’
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan on their new children’s picture book
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan on their new children’s picture book
In 'To Save and to Destroy,' a clarion call for literature of dissent
In 'To Save and to Destroy,' a clarion call for literature of dissent
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire
The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
Inside My Mid-Life Crisis
Inside My Mid-Life Crisis
For Viet Thanh Nguyen, Writing is an Act of Beauty and Justice - Electric Literature
For Viet Thanh Nguyen, Writing is an Act of Beauty and Justice - Electric Literature
Asking “What About…?” Is Essential to Achieving Justice
Asking “What About…?” Is Essential to Achieving Justice
All Wars Are Fought Twice : Throughline
All Wars Are Fought Twice : Throughline
Stories from the War
Stories from the War
Opinion: Affirmative action isn't hurting Asian Americans. Here's why that myth survives
Opinion: Affirmative action isn't hurting Asian Americans. Here's why that myth survives
How L.A.'s writers spent their two-year pandemic
How L.A.'s writers spent their two-year pandemic
The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most
Vanity Fair Interview: The Sympathizer Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on What It Means to Be an Outsider
Vanity Fair Interview: The Sympathizer Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on What It Means to Be an Outsider
'I Am Disappointed, Fearful, Numb.' Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Reflects on Trump 'Racially Purifying' the US
'I Am Disappointed, Fearful, Numb.' Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Reflects on Trump 'Racially Purifying' the US
Lesser of Two Evils? Our Fight Is Against Both, No Matter How We Vote
Lesser of Two Evils? Our Fight Is Against Both, No Matter How We Vote
A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
How America Became Afraid of the Other
How America Became Afraid of the Other
To Save Refugees and Migrants Is to Save Ourselves
To Save Refugees and Migrants Is to Save Ourselves
Can Reading About Trauma Help Kids Cope?
Can Reading About Trauma Help Kids Cope?
Double Vision: Gary Singh reviews A MAN OF TWO FACES
Double Vision: Gary Singh reviews A MAN OF TWO FACES
Viet Nam, Gaza, and the Power of Spectacle
Viet Nam, Gaza, and the Power of Spectacle
Viet Thanh Nguyen Considers the Memoir
Viet Thanh Nguyen Considers the Memoir
"A Student Rebellion Against the Hypocrisy of Their Elders" - USC Prof & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
"A Student Rebellion Against the Hypocrisy of Their Elders" - USC Prof & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
What Makes a Trip Memorable: Your Destination or Your Travel Companion?
What Makes a Trip Memorable: Your Destination or Your Travel Companion?
Lisa Ko: An audacious memoir from Viet Thanh Nguyen
Lisa Ko: An audacious memoir from Viet Thanh Nguyen
10 Californians tell us what brought them comfort and joy in 2022
10 Californians tell us what brought them comfort and joy in 2022
Opinion | My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life.
Opinion | My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life.
Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Cover of His New Memoir
Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Cover of His New Memoir
Vietnam, Afghanistan, and American Moral Obligation
Vietnam, Afghanistan, and American Moral Obligation
For the New York Times: Advice for Artists Whose Parents Want Them to Be Engineers
For the New York Times: Advice for Artists Whose Parents Want Them to Be Engineers
The Beautiful, Flawed Fiction of "Asian American"
The Beautiful, Flawed Fiction of "Asian American"
The rise of anti-Asian violence
The rise of anti-Asian violence
For The Nation: ‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
For The Nation: ‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
For the New Yorker: How Viet Thanh Nguyen Turns Fiction Into Criticism
For the New Yorker: How Viet Thanh Nguyen Turns Fiction Into Criticism
For the New York Times: He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too
For the New York Times: He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too
For the New York Times: I Actually Like Teaching on Zoom
For the New York Times: I Actually Like Teaching on Zoom
For the Washington Post: There's a reason the South Vietnamese flag flew during the Capitol riot
For the Washington Post: There's a reason the South Vietnamese flag flew during the Capitol riot
For the Washington Post: ‘Minari’ is about immigrants who speak Korean. That doesn’t make it ‘foreign.’
For the Washington Post: ‘Minari’ is about immigrants who speak Korean. That doesn’t make it ‘foreign.’
For the New York Times Opinion: The Post-Trump Future of Literature
For the New York Times Opinion: The Post-Trump Future of Literature
For the New York Times Opinion: What the Asian-American Coalition Can Teach the Democrats
For the New York Times Opinion: What the Asian-American Coalition Can Teach the Democrats
Read my article for TIME about Anti-Asian racism in America
Read my article for TIME about Anti-Asian racism in America
be/longing: Asian Americans Now | "The Storyteller"
be/longing: Asian Americans Now | "The Storyteller"
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