Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

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1. Fiction and nonfiction accomplish very different things, but they can overlap. I wanted my fiction to seem nonfictional, and my nonfiction to seem fictional.

   2017, On the congruent nature of fiction and nonfiction in “Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides” in The Writer (2017 Jan 17), Eigene Worte

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2. Implicitly, the novel insists that a true war story has to take into account not just combat and soldiers, but civilians, the home front, and the military-industrial complex.

   2017, On his work The Sympathizer in “Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides” in The Writer (2017 Jan 17), Eigene Worte

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3. It's taken me a long time to understand how deeply traumatic that was, that that experience remains an invisible brand stamped between my shoulder blades.

   2016, On fleeing from Saigon as a toddler in “Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Discusses 'The Sympathizer' And His Escape From Vietnam” in NPR (2016 May, Eigene Worte

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