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All Wars Are Fought Twice Enlarge this image toggle caption Nik Wheeler/CORBIS Nik Wheeler/CORBIS "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. A refugee from the Vietnam War, Nguyen calls himself a scholar of memory — someone who studies how we remember events of the …

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A reading guide on the Asian American experience from Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Yu and more

On the Shelf An Asian-American reading list If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Suggestions come from Times staff; novelists including Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Yu and Steph Cha; poet Victoria Chang; and a group of scholars from Asian American Studies departments in California and beyond. …

Watch Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss ‘The Committed’ at the L.A. Times Book Club

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen joined the Los Angeles Times Book Club to discuss “The Committed,” the sequel to his 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Sympathizer.” Nguyen was in conversation March 10 with Times columnist Carolina A. Miranda. Nguyen’s debut novel, “The Sympathizer,” introduced his unnamed protagonist, a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent navigating life, love, loyalty and espionage in Los …

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on his ‘Sympathizer’ sequel and the ‘scarcity’ of voices like his

Viet Thanh Nguyen had no intention of writing a sequel to “The Sympathizer,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a French-Vietnamese undercover agent working for Communist forces during the end of the Vietnam War. During the virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday, Nguyen and his 7-year-old son, Ellison, joined Caldecott Medal winner Thi Bui and her 13-year-old son, …