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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer prize for fiction. Other honours include the Edgar award for best first novel from the Mystery Writers of America and the Andrew Carnegie Medal. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. 

March 2022

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  The books of my lifeViet Thanh Nguyen: ‘I didn’t notice the racism of Tintin’

  The Pulitzer prize-winning novelist on the depiction of Vietnamese people, the fun in Voltaire’s Candide and memorable masturbation scenes

April 2021

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  From colonialism to Covid: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the rise of anti-Asian violence

  During the pandemic, anti-Asian violence is on the rise around the world. The Pulitzer-winning author reflects on his own experiences as a Vietnamese American – and the dark history that continues to fuel the current hate

July 2020

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  'Free speech has never been freer': Pankaj Mishra and Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation

  Are we living through a moment of lasting change? Two authors discuss Black Lives Matter, the Harper’s letter and where we go from here

February 2020

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  'Love, loss and longing': the best books on migration, chosen by writers

  Amid the American Dirt controversy, we asked authors of our favorite books about migration for their recommendations

July 2016

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  Paperback writerViet Thanh Nguyen: 'Winning the Pulitzer changed the value of my book and myself'

  The author recalls the dreamlike state in which he wrote his Pulitzer-winning novel The Sympathizer, and wishes for the private joy he felt while writing it

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