
Austin Library | The Library Foundation | Stories: Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen


Viet Thanh Nguyen’s writing is bold, elegant, and fiercely honest. His remarkable debut novel, ‘The Sympathizer’, won the Pulitzer Prize, was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award. The critically acclaimed television adaptation of ‘The Sympathizer’ is currently airing on MAX as a limited series. Other books by Viet include ‘The Refugees’, ‘The Committed’ and ‘A Man of Two Faces’. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius grant. Along with teaching at the University of Southern California, he works as a cultural critic-at-large for The Los Angeles Times. Viet lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
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Austin Library | Stories: Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen