"Fiction and nonfiction accomplish very different things, but they can overlap. I wanted my fiction to seem nonfictional, and my nonfiction to seem fictional. At the same time, in fiction I could say things I couldn’t get away with in nonfiction without footnotes. And in nonfiction, I could make things explicit that I couldn’t say in fiction because of the viewpoint of my protagonist."
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Pulitzer Prize winnersNovelists from the United StatesAcademics from the United StatesMacArthur FellowsVietnamese Americans
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On the congruent nature of fiction and nonfiction in “Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides” in The Writer (2017 Jan 17)
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