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# Viet Thanh Nguyễn

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## Viet Thanh Nguyễn


Nguyễn was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel [_The Sympathizer_](https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-sympathizer/)won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards. His latest book is [_To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other_](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/viet-thanh-nguyen-to-save-and-destroy-on-writing-as-an-other)


## Viet Thanh Nguyễn


* ![Naturalization Ceremony Held At Griffith Observatory For 10 New U.S. Citizens](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff057841d3865ffd/6998c61066d4e35135cbc6a1/Swearing-in-immigration-2021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 28, 2025  
### [How America Became Afraid of the Other](https://time.com/7280423/immigrants-refugees-america-afraid-of-the-other-essay/)  
"Punishing assorted others quells empathy and dissent, for we do not want to be targeted ourselves,"...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![59th Presidential Inauguration](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltffbbe3b20da1c11b/698a17260116827fac980542/amanda-gorman-poem.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 12, 2021  
### [What Amanda Gorman Teaches Us About Our Shared America](https://time.com/5938544/amanda-gorman-poem-america/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![A musician and a girl in Topaz Internment Camp in Utah, July 1945](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9306e46fc0aae4d/698a0fb0096a94853b6a8534/anti-asian-racism-america-featured-image.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 25, 2020  
### [Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All](https://time.com/5859206/anti-asian-racism-america/)  
Asian Americans have embraced a country that passed a law to keep them out. The real American dream ...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Vuong was born in Ho Chi Minh City and immigrated to the U.S. with his family as a child.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b87b901d6040a93/69894ad6096a94d6866a52c8/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 6, 2019  
### [_On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous_ Is a Daring Tale of Queer Love and Pain](https://time.com/5601993/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-book-review/)  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)
* ![King delivering his speech “Beyond Vietnam” at New York City’s Riverside Church in 1967](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt605a6fa24918420f/69894373929fad2c7fbf285b/vlede-mlk-beyond-vietnam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 17, 2019  
### [The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most](https://time.com/5505453/martin-luther-king-beyond-vietnam/)  
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Dr. King's 1967 speech ‘Beyond Vietnam’  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
* ![The Nguyen family, in the early 1980s in San Jose, Calif., where his parents owned the New Saigon Mini Market](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26de6c3f32009754/69893f2497cdffe1e96b6b9b/viet-than-nguyen-essay-america-vietnam-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 15, 2018  
### [I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It](https://time.com/5455490/american-like-me/)  
What it means to love my country, no matter how it feels about me  
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* ![The immigrants fate is everyone's](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta518eaeca0f22af5/69889a350a4a22414b9ca4e9/american-immigrants-fate-is-everyones.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 30, 2016  
### [Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Immigrant's Fate Is Everyone's](https://time.com/4389128/the-immigrants-fate-is-everyones/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)

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