Noah and Taya from Arts4Refugees talk about another arty refugee that Freya - a student journalist with us. This placement was organised by Oxford University Career Services. Freya is studying English literature and language. She is also looking at the literary works and experience as a refuge - Viet Than Nguyen.
Nguyen is a Vietnam refugee who had to immigrate to the United States. He currently writes for the New York Times and is a lecturer at the University of Southern California. Nguyen tries to combine identity, politics, and history in his works. His debut novel - The Sympathizer - won 7 awards.
You can listen to the full conversation here.
Key Points:
Freya is a second year studying English literature and language at Oxford.
Nguyen has won the Pulitzer prize for fiction and the Literature peace prize
Some of his most well-known works are “The Refugees” and “The Sympathizer”
He collaborated on a children’s book called “Chicken of the Sea”
He is also the editor of “The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives”
