In a recent interview, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke about his “pervasive preoccupation” with the power of storytelling and his relationship to otherness.

Viet Thanh Nguyen's parents opened SàiGòn Mới, or New Saigon, grocery store on East Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose after they arrived in the city in 1978 (Courtesy of Viet Thanh Nguyen).

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 ...

Vietnamese American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote his first book in third grade. “The library gave it a book award and set me on the road to 30 years of misery trying to become a ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the president’s chaotic trade war, detentions and deportations of pro ...

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 ...

In a theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen readied himself to speak. It was December 2023, and Nguyen was midway through a six-part lecture series at Harvard University.

Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old. Growing up in San Jose, California, Nguyen remembers the moment he understood he was Asian-American.

That’s Viet Thanh Nguyen, writing in his latest collection, “To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.” The book originated as six lectures that the Pulitzer Prize winner gave for the ...

Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (A Man of Two Faces) discussed his memoir about life as a Vietnam refugee growing up in America, and took calls from a national audience.