Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-born American novelist, essayist, and professor. He is best known for his debut novel The Sympathizer (2015), which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His work examines the legacy and memory of the Vietnam War, colonialism, diaspora, and identity. Nguyen has published fiction (The Sympathizer; The Committed; The Refugees), nonfiction (Nothing Ever Dies), edited anthologies, and a memoir (A Man of Two Faces). He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.