Viet Thanh Nguyen

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

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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, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from an American Author from the Mystery Writers of America, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. 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. **Source**: [Viet Thanh Nguyen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Thanh_Nguyen) on Wikipedia.

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To Save and to Destroy
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The Committed
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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Fight of the Century
Representative edition published 2020
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Displaced
Representative edition published 2019
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Chicken of the Sea
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Mülteciler
Representative edition published 2019
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The Displaced
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El simpatizante
Representative edition published 2017
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Nothing ever dies
Representative edition published 2017
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The refugees
Representative edition published 2017
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El simpatizante (Spanish Edition)
Representative edition published 2017
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Refugees
Representative edition published 2017
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Flashpoints for Asian American Studies
Representative edition published 2017
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Refugees, The
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Le sympathisant
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Sempatizan
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One World Two
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The Sympathizer
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The Sympathizer
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Race & resistance
Representative edition published 2002
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Untitled Viet Thanh Nguyen Essays
Representative edition published 2022
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It occurs to me that I am America
Representative edition published 2019
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Pangs of Love and Other Writings
Representative edition published 2019
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