Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in 1971, Viet Thanh Nguyen has written at least 20 books. Their most popular book is The Sympathizer with 333 saves with an average rating of 4⭐.

They are best known for writing in the genres War, Fiction, and History.

dark, reflective, and emotional are their most common moods.

Author Bio

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. 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.