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  Introducing The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

  Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to support the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Today the world faces an enormous refugee crisis—22.5… (read more)

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  Spies Like Us: A Professor Undercover in the Literary Marketplace

  Timothy K. August discusses The Sympathizer and other novels by Viet Thanh Nguyen in this review for Literature Interpretation Theory.  Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize win has fundamentally changed the way Vietnamese American writing is read. Or at least Nguyen is actively trying to change the way that Vietnamese American writing is read. Leveraging the access that… (read more)

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  Nguyen, Soll named University Professors

  USC Dornsife faculty members Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jacob Soll are recognized by USC President C. L. Max Nikias for outstanding leadership in their fields. Originally published by USC Dornsife. USC President C. L. Max Nikias has appointed USC Dornsife’s Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jacob Soll as University Professors. “These exceptional faculty members have brought immense… (read more)