{"id":5763,"date":"2016-10-06T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/literary-lion-viet-thanh-nguyen-is-short-listed-for-the-national-book-award\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:10:46","slug":"literary-lion-viet-thanh-nguyen-is-short-listed-for-the-national-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/literary-lion-viet-thanh-nguyen-is-short-listed-for-the-national-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary lion Viet Thanh Nguyen is short listed for the National Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-2426-690x432.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Literary lion Viet Thanh Nguyen is short listed for the National Book Award\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  After winning a Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, Viet Thanh Nguyen was named a finalist for a 2016 National Book Award in the nonfiction category for his second book. Photo courtesy of Viet Thanh Nguyen.\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Literary lion Viet Thanh Nguyen is short listed for the National Book Award<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  USC Dornsife\u2019s Viet Thanh Nguyen follows up his Pulitzer Prize win for fiction with a spot on the short list of the National Book Awards \u2014 this time for nonfiction.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Susan Bell<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">October 6, 2016<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 2.518315-1.68841575 4.0350275 0 1.5167124.60096154 2.9475732 1.68841575 4.0350274 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href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003574\" target=\"_blank\">Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/a>, Aerol Arnold Chair of English and associate professor of English and American studies and ethnicity, has been named among the finalists for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nba2016.html#.V_a7RKW8_nc\" target=\"_blank\">2016 National Book Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen was among five authors selected for this honor in the nonfiction category for his book <em>Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2016). His inclusion in the short list made headlines in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/07\/books\/national-book-awards-finalists-include-colson-whitehead-and-viet-thanh-nguyen.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>No stranger to literary laurels, Nguyen has already racked up a raft of honors since the publication of his debut novel <em>The Sympathizer<\/em> (Grove Press) last year. The book, which presents the Vietnam War from multiple perspectives through the lens of its protagonist, an American-educated spy for the Viet Cong, <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2316\/usc-dornsifes-viet-thanh-nguyen-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen considers <em>Nothing Ever Dies<\/em> as the nonfiction sequel to his novel, saying each book illuminates the other.<\/p>\n<p>He greeted the &ldquo;wonderful news&rdquo; that <em>Nothing Ever Dies<\/em> is a finalist for the National Book Award by saying that he really didn&rsquo;t think the book would make it this far, adding that he was &ldquo;gratified, for obvious reasons.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The nomination is recognition of how I wanted this serious, theoretical, and challenging book to be accessible,&rdquo; Nguyen said. &ldquo;I wrote it for both academics and specialists, and interested lay readers. I hope the success of the book inspires other academics to believe that they don&rsquo;t have to compromise their scholarly work in order to reach a larger audience.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations and tributes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of Nguyen&rsquo;s colleagues applauded his success and extolled his virtues both as an author and a scholar.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Professor Nguyen&rsquo;s achievement with <em>Nothing Ever Dies<\/em>, coming on the heels of a Pulitzer Prize for his path-breaking debut novel, <em>The Sympathizer<\/em>, marks his presence as one of the leading commentators on modern America and its place in the world,&rdquo; said USC Dornsife Dean Amber Miller. &ldquo;I am delighted that he is among our exceptional USC Dornsife faculty and I am pleased to congratulate him on yet another well-earned honor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-image-portrait news-image-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674660342\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Nguyen2-2426.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait Right\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War<\/em> is Nguyen&#8217;s second book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>University Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of English David St. John noted that in <em>Nothing Ever Dies<\/em>, Nguyen has written a deeply personal yet highly scholarly meditation on the ethics of memory, using America&rsquo;s war in Vietnam as the crux of what are often searing questions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As in Viet&rsquo;s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, <em>The Sympathizer<\/em>, his readers are confronted with America&rsquo;s willful cultural amnesia and the expense we continue to face because of our refusals to remember,&rdquo; St. John said. &ldquo;Both of Viet&rsquo;s books insist that we reconsider the past 50 years of American history.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Personally, it has been very exciting to see Viet take his place as a public intellectual. His lectures and public appearances, as well as his journalistic essays and op-ed pieces, are helping all of us to re-shape our thinking about memory and war &mdash; not only America&rsquo;s war in Vietnam, but about all wars.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Peter Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and vice dean for the humanities and social sciences, said he was delighted, and not at all surprised, to learn that <em>Nothing Ever Dies<\/em> has been named as a finalist for the National Book Award. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Viet is among a vanishingly small pool of scholar-artists capable of expanding our understanding of the modern world through his brilliant <em>The Sympathizer<\/em> and now with a stunning work of non-fiction,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;His work &mdash; and I say this as a historian &mdash; is doing nothing less than reshaping our understanding of the history of the Pacific Rim.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Established in 1950 and administered by the nonprofit National Book Foundation, the National Book Award is one of the nation&rsquo;s most prestigious literary prizes. Finalists were announced Oct. 6. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York City on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year running that USC Dornsife scholars have ranked highly in the National Book Awards. Doctoral candidate Robin Coste Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2213\/usc-dornsife-doctoral-student-wins-the-national-book-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">won the 2015 National Book Award<\/a> in the poetry category for her debut book, <em>Voyage of the Sable Venus<\/em> (Alfred Knopf, 2015), while alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2087\/this-must-be-the-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Flournoy&rsquo;s first novel<\/a>, <em>The Turner House<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), was short listed in the fiction category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC Dornsife\u2019s Viet Thanh Nguyen follows up his Pulitzer Prize win for fiction with a spot on the short list of the National Book Awards \u2014 this time for 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