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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen (born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese-American novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among other accolades, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Nguyen is also a regular contributor, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, covering immigration, refugees, politics, culture and South East Asia.

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American author of fiction

Born 13 Mar 1971

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  • Cover of: Sympathizer

    First published in 2015 — 13 editions
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  • Cover of: The Committed

    First published in 2021 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field

    First published in 2014 — 4 editions
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    First published in 2017 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Nothing ever dies: Vietnam and the memory of war
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    First published in 2016 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art

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  • Cover of: Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
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    First published in 2020 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

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  • Cover of: Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

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  • Cover of: Go Home!

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  • Cover of: To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

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  • Cover of: The refugees
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  • Cover of: Chicken of the Sea

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  • Cover of: Sempatizan

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  • Cover of: Le sympathisant

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  • Cover of: El simpatizante (Spanish Edition)

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  • Cover of: Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

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  • Cover of: One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories

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  • Cover of: Tong qing zhe

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American author of fiction

Born 13 Mar 1971

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Fiction, Refugees, New York Times reviewed, FICTION, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, American, American literature, Asian American authors, Communists, Fiction, short stories (single author), General, HISTORY, Immigrants, Immigrants -- Fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS, New York Times bestseller, Refugees -- Fiction, Soldiers, Vietnamese, Vietnamese -- United States -- Fiction, Vietnamese fiction, American Short stories, American civil liberties union, American fiction, American literature, asian american authors, history and criticism

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California, Los Angeles, United States, Vietnam (Republic)

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21st century

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Alternative names

  • Nguyễn Thanh Việt

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November 14, 2021 Edited by raybb merge authors
October 19, 2020 Edited by dcapillae Added short bio from Wikipedia
October 19, 2020 Edited by dcapillae Added new photo
October 19, 2020 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import