ABRAMS PRESS TO PUBLISH COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY REFUGEE WRITERS, EDITED BY PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR VIET THANH NGUYEN
PROCEEDS TO BE DONATED TO THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC)
New York, NY – January 11, 2018 – ABRAMS will publish The Displaced (Abrams Press; April 10, 2018; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover), edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author Viet Thanh Nguyen, under its newly launched non-fiction imprint, Abrams Press. ABRAMS will donate 10 percent of the cover price of this book, a minimum of $25,000, to the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid, relief, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict. For more information on the IRC, visit http://www.rescue.org/.
“We are honored to be publishing this important collection on our new imprint, Abrams Press. Viet Thanh Nguyen has collected together an immensely impressive group of writers, and their stories remind us of what we all stand to lose when we close our borders to immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees and others who have and continue to make our country a beacon of hope in the world .”
—Jamison Stoltz, Executive Editor, Abrams Press
The Displaced features essays from seventeen prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. A timely and poignant collection, the book is also an indictment of the international community closing its doors to refugees and a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of asylum. Tour dates for the book’s publication to be announced.
The book’s full list of featured writers includes:
Joseph Azam David Bezmozgis Fatima Bhutto Thi Bui Ariel Dorfman Lev Golinkin Reyna Grande Meron Hadero Aleksandar Hemon Joseph Kertes Porochista Khakpour Marina Lewycka Maaza Mengiste Dina Nayeri Vu Tran Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Kao Kalia Yang
About the Editor
Viet ThanhNguyen was born in Vietnam in 1971. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he and his family fled to the United States. The author of three books including The Sympathizer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a recently published story collection, The Refugees, Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.
About the International Rescue Committee (IRC)
The IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is at work in more than forty countries and twenty-eight offices across the United States, helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future, and strengthen their communities. Learn more at www.rescue.org.
About the Book
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Abrams Press / April 10, 2018
U.S. $25.00 / CAN $32.00
Hardcover / 192 pages
5½ x 8¼”
ISBN 978-1-4197-2948-5
For Immediate Release Contact: Maya Bradford
Senior Publicist
212.229.7188 mbradford@abramsbooks.com
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New York, NY – January 11, 2018 – ABRAMS will publish The Displaced (Abrams Press; April 10, 2018; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover), edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author Viet Thanh Nguyen, under its newly launched non-fiction imprint, Abrams Press. ABRAMS will donate 10 percent of the cover price of
this book, a minimum of $25,000, to the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid, relief, and resettlement to refugees and other victims of oppression or violent conflict. For more information on the IRC, visit http://www.rescue.org/.