Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Simon and Rachel speak with the novelist and academic Viet Thanh Nguyen. Born in Vietnam, Viet came to the United States as a refugee in 1975. He completed a PhD in English at
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist best known for his debut novel The Sympathizer, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. His latest
Season 4 kicks off with Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Sympathizer which was adapted into an HBO limited series and released in April 2024