Author

Books by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1971 and came to the United States as a refugee at age four. He is a professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California and the author of The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction along with numerous other awards; its sequel The Committed; a short story collection, The Refugees; and a nonfiction work, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. His work is centrally concerned with the Vietnamese diaspora, the legacies of the Vietnam War, and the politics of memory and representation.