Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971[lower-alpha 1]) is a Vietnamese-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.[3][4]
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Born | Nguyễn Thanh Việt (1971-03-13) March 13, 1971 (age 53) Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam |
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Nationality | American |
Education | University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Riverside University of California, Berkeley (BA, PhD) |
Genre | novel, literary fiction, historical fiction, crime fiction, non-fiction |
Notable works | The Sympathizer (2015) The Refugees (2017) |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2016) MacArthur Genius Grant (2017) Guggenheim Fellowship (2017) |
Spouse | Lan Duong |
Children | 2 |
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Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,[5] the Dayton Literary Peace Prize,[6] the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize,[7] and many other accolades.
He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship,[8][9] and a Guggenheim Fellowship, in 2017.[10][11]
Nguyen is a regular contributor, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, covering immigration, refugees, politics, culture, and Southeast Asia.[12]
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[13][14] and in 2020 was elected as the first Asian-American member of the Pulitzer Prize Board in its 103-year-history.[15][16][17]