Viet Thanh Nguyen
English and Ethnic Studies
1992 and 1997
B.A. and PhD
Department of English
Literature
Vietnamese American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 debut work, The Sympathizer, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his current collection of short stories, The Refugees, is a bestseller. Most recently Nguyen has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArhtur Foundations. In addition to his literary work, Nguyen is also a contributor to theLos Angeles Timesand theNew York Times;and he holds the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and is a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.