Viet Thanh Nguyen 3 credits

Born March 13, 1971 in Buôn Ma Thuột

Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and 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, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and many other accolades. In 2017, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Nguyen is a regular contributor to and op-ed columnist for The New York Times, covering immigration, refugees, politics, culture, and Southeast Asia.

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