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Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer, which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees, the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance, and editor of The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. He teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Viet Thanh Nguyen Books

Beyond Vietnam book cover

Beyond Vietnam

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Man of Two Faces book cover

A Man of Two Faces

Viet Thanh Nguyen
Somewhere We Are Human book cover

Somewhere We Are Human

Reyna Grande
The Committed book cover

The Committed

Viet Thanh Nguyen
Fight of the Century book cover

Fight of the Century

Michael Chabon
Pangs of Love and Other Writings book cover

Pangs of Love and Other Writings

David Wong Louie
The Displaced book cover

The Displaced

Viet Thanh Nguyen
Go Home! book cover

Go Home!

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
It Occurs to Me That I Am America book cover

It Occurs to Me That I Am America

Richard Russo
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies book cover

Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

Cathy Schlund-Vials
The Refugees book cover

The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen
One World Two book cover

One World Two

Aminatta Forna
The Sympathizer book cover

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen
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