Viet Thanh Nguyen

b. 1971

1 standalone book

Viet Thanh Nguyen, born on March 13, 1971, is a Vietnamese-American novelist. He holds the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and is a professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His debut novel, The Sympathizer, received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction. In 2017, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Nguyen regularly contributes as an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, writing on topics such as immigration, refugees, politics, culture, and Southeast Asia.

Born

1971