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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) 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 .
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Viet Thanh Nguyen is a University Professor, Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and the novel The Sympathizer, fr...
He is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War from Harvard University Press (2016, foreign rights to four countries), which is the critical bookend to a creative project whose fictional bookend is The Sympathizer. Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle...
His current books are The Refugees, a short story collection from Grove Press (2017, foreign rights to fourteen countries), and The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, which he edited. He is an opinion writer for the New York Times, and has written for Time, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and other venues. Along with Janet Hoskins, he co-edit...
He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the James Irvine Foundation...
Viet was born in Ban Me Thuot, Viet Nam (now spelled Buon Me Thuot after 1975, a year which brought enormous changes to many things, including the Vietnamese language). He came to the United States as a refugee in 1975 with his family and was initially settled in Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, one of four such camps for Vietnamese refugees. Fro...
Viet attended St. Patrick School and Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. After high school, he briefly attended UC Riverside and UCLA before settling on UC Berkeley, where he graduated with degrees in English and ethnic studies. He stayed at Berkeley for a Ph.D. in English, moved to Los Angeles for a teaching position at the University of S...
People not familiar with Vietnamese culture sometimes have a hard time pronouncing his surname. The wikipedia entry on Nguyen has audio pronunciations of the name in Vietnamese. He favors the southern pronunciation of his name, which with the full diacritical marks is Việt Thanh Nguyễn. For those in the United States, though, the Anglicization of N...
Viet is actively involved with promoting the arts and culture of Vietnamese in the diaspora through two organizations.
Viet is also on the steering committee for USCs Center for Transpacific Studies, which encourages the study of how cultures, peoples, capital, and ideas flow across the Pacific and between Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. He and colleague Janet Hoskins are co-editing an anthology on Transpacific Studies, forthcoming in 2014 from the Uni...
Feb 22, 2021 · Nguyen’s main character is the metaphorical and literal product of France’s own long and ugly history in Vietnam. His father is a French priest who impregnated his mother when she was thirteen ...
Mar 15, 2024 · Nguyen’s memoir rails against cliché. It also plays. It pokes fun at the immigrant-American-has-an-identity-crisis narrative, and offers sarcastic steps for anyone writing their own immigrant ...
May 19, 2024 · The miniseries is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by author Viet Thanh Nguyen, who himself fled Vietnam with his parents at the age of four. Though The Sympathizer is fiction, the themes Nguyen explores are central to both his own lived experience and those of many other immigrants in America.
Mar 29, 2024 · Born in Vietnam and raised in America, Viet Thanh Nguyen interrogates his dual identity and the fallibility of memory in his latest book, A Man of Two Faces. Developed from a series of essays ...
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May 10, 2024 · Viet Thanh Nguyen and his family fled Vietnam in 1975 after the fall of Saigon. He was 4 when he came to the United States. GROSS: Your novel is written in the form of a confession, the confession ...
