Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Areol Arnold Chair of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His first novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as many other literary prizes. His nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award, and his collection of short stories, The Refugees (2017), has received numerous accolades. He is a...See more

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Areol Arnold Chair of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His first novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as many other literary prizes. His nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award, and his collection of short stories, The Refugees (2017), has received numerous accolades. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. See less