Writing
Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Born
- Mar 13, 1971 · Age 55
- Place of birth
- Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 0
- TV credits
- 5
Also known as (1)
- Nguyễn Thanh Việt
Biography
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. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. Nguyen is a regular contributor, op-ed columnist for The…