Viet Thanh Nguyen in Podcasts
personA person who is a Vietnamese refugee and author.
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Viet also calls himself a scholar of memory, someone who studies how we remember events of the past, both as people and as nations, and how those memories affect how we face the future.
Viet Thanh Nguyen was four years old when his family escaped from the Vietnam War, boatlifted out of Vietnam, then airlifted to a new life in the United States.
Book banned in communist Vietnam because that means it spoke the truth and the truth is what matters.
You can have the Pulitzer Prize or you can have your book banned in Vietnam by the communist government.
They apparently did not read more than 10 pages of The Sympathizer because the novel was actually banned in Vietnam by the communist government.
I literally get messages from people saying, since you love the commies so much, go back to Vietnam.
So, you know, you as a Vietnamese refugee, or we as Vietnamese refugees could say, well, we're better than the Haitians, whether we thought that explicitly or not, that's the message that's being sent out.
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