Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen (born 1971 in Buôn Ma Thuột , South Vietnam ) is a Vietnamese-American English scholar and writer.

Life

Viet Thanh Nguyen grew up in Buôn Ma Thuột and fled to the United States with his brother and parents in 1975 when Saigon fell . From the refugee camp in Fort Indiantown Gap he came to live with an American family until his parents found an economic existence in San José , California , where he went to school. He studied English and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his PhD in English from UC Berkeley in 1997. Nguyen is a professor at the University of Southern California .

In addition to his academic work and teaching, Nguyen has been publishing short stories since 2007. His first novel, The Sympathizer , received the Pulitzer Prize in 2016 and other awards, including the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Debut Novel , and was shortlisted by the International DUBLIN Literary in 2017 Award . In 2017 Nguyen was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 2018 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Regarding Hollywood's view of the Vietnam War , he says it is the only time history has been written by the losers - by portraying Americans as the real victims of the war and ignoring the Vietnamese killed.

Works (selection)

Fiction
  • Short stories: single publications since 2007
  • The sympathizer . New York: Grove Press, 2015
    • The sympathizer: Roman . Translation Wolfgang Müller. Munich: Karl Blessing, 2017
  • The refugees . New York: Grove Press, 2017
    • The refugees . Stories. From the American by Wolfgang Müller, Blessing Verlag, 2018
research
  • Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002
  • with Janet Hoskins (Ed.): Transpacific studies: framing an emerging field . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2014
  • Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and The Memory of War . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016

literature

  • Viet Thanh Nguyen: America and me . Essay, in: Financial Times, February 4, 2017, p. L&A 1f.
  • Fatima Bhutto : Rough crossings . Review, in: Financial Times, February 18, 2017, p. L&A 10
  • Katharin Borchardt: Everyone gets their fat from him . Review, in: NZZ, February 10, 2018, p. 24

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Viet Thanh Nguyen, 46, fiction writer and cultural critic living in Los Angeles , NPR, October 11, 2017, accessed October 8, 2018
  2. ^ Paraphrased in Aminatta Forna : Who we should be . Speech excerpt. Translation Holger Hutt, in: der Freitag , March 2, 2017, p. 19
  3. ^ Website of the publishing group Random House Bertelsmann: Die Geflüchteten. October 8, 2018, accessed October 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Nguyen, Viet Thanh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese-American social scientist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Buôn Ma Thuột