2016 Pulitzer Prizes: Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Sympathizer!
Thompson, C. M. thompsonc2 at southernct.edu
Mon Apr 18 13:50:56 PDT 2016
Dear Everyone,
Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer!
cheers
Michele
Michele Thompson
Professor of Southeast Asian History
Dept. of History
Southern Connecticut State Univ.
Hue-Tam Tai hhtai at fas.harvard.edu
Mon Apr 18 13:58:39 PDT 2016
How wonderful! And so well deserved. Congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen,
whose Nothing Ever Dies came out earlier.
I understand from Viet that a sequel is in the works.
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Janet Alison Hoskins jhoskins at usc.edu
Mon Apr 18 14:14:52 PDT 2016
This is great! Viet is sitting all alone in a hotel room in Cambridge, Mass, asking himself if this is for real. It actually is!
Janet
Quang Van quang.van at yale.edu
Mon Apr 18 14:22:43 PDT 2016
Surreal! We saw him last Thursday at Yale. Quang.
Nhan Ngo nhan at temple.edu
Mon Apr 18 14:27:46 PDT 2016
Fantastic! Congrats, Viet Thanh Nguyen!
from
Ngo Thanh Nhan
Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society
Temple University
Vuong Vu-Duc vuduc.vuong at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 14:43:58 PDT 2016
Mazel tov! and Chúc Mừng!
Or as we say in Vietnamese, Việt : Có thế chứ !
Vượng.
Quynh Le Tran lequynh78 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 15:01:26 PDT 2016
This will be one of the most inspiring stories for Vietnamese people in
2016!
Quynh Le
Acting Head of Vietnamese Service
BBC World Service, London
Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong nguyenvo at humnet.ucla.edu
Mon Apr 18 16:43:34 PDT 2016
Congratulations, Viet. Looking forward to the sequel.
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Margaret Suzanne Barnhill Bodemer mbodemer at calpoly.edu
Mon Apr 18 16:48:46 PDT 2016
Wow, CONGRATULATIONS to Viet!!
This is huge news and a tremendous accomplishment!!!
Thank you everyone for announcing it to VSG! I will definitely be buying additional copies to give as New Year's/Christmas gifts!!
Warmly,
Maggie
Margaret B. Bodemer, Ph.D.
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Diane Fox dnfox70 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 22:24:45 PDT 2016
Thanks, Michele, for the news, and thanks, Viet, for the book! Congratulations!
Diane
Diane Fox
anthopology, retired
Dan Duffy vietnamlit at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 08:22:47 PDT 2016
http://phamnguyentruong.blogspot.fr/2015/08/tac-pham-cam-tinh-vien-sympathizer-cua.html
Quynh Le Tran lequynh78 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 08:32:03 PDT 2016
This is my piece, with quotes from four writers who have read the book:
http://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/vietnam/2016/04/160418_the_sympathizer_pulitzer_comments
Quynh Le
Acting Head of Vietnamese Service
BBC World Service, London
Anh Pham gaupvn at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 09:00:31 PDT 2016
Congratulations to anh Việt, and to all of us who take pride from this
Vietnamese Pulitzer. The last time a Vietnamese won the Pulitzer prize was
Nick Ut in 1973?
To think about it, it is an inevitability that a Vietnamese should win this
prestigious prize. Before the Sympathizer came out in April 2015, over Tet
2015 here on our very own VSG I'd published a serialized spy story full of
patriotism, duplicity, love, betrayal - that in many ways even more
intriguing than the Sympathizer. Had the board managers not asked me to
stop sharing the exciting story that would have taken our dear readers from
Hanoi to Bangkok to Beijing to Washington DC and various other nid
d'espions before ending tragically but no less heroically in Halong Bay, we
might very well have had two Vietnamese spy stories sharing one Pulitzer
prize today (or one winner and one finalist). What a pity for us all
really. But you know I am used to that sort of treatment growing up behind
the bamboo curtain with bronze fisted parents.
Again, congratulations to Việt for the prize that we could have shared.
(Do people actually share the Pulitzer like they do the Nobel? If not I
will aim for the latter then.)
Anh Pham - Independent Contractor
Washington DC
Anh Pham gaupvn at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 19:51:53 PDT 2016
On FB Vietnam, a lot of cheerful people are joining the We The Sympathizers
movement by adding the book cover's cool text to their own photo. Some look
very legitimate. Here is your humble one's.
What do you think is the book's chance of being published uncensored?
Anh Pham
Washington DC