THE SYMPATHIZER

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of four books, including The Sympathizer (Grove Press) which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Sympathizer was also the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. Nguyen’s other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America.

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The Refugees (Grove Press), Nguyen’s newest book and an IndieNext selection, is a collection of short fiction.