Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a South Vietnamese-born American novelist and professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is best known for The Sympathizer, a spy novel set in the last days of the Vietnam War, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He continued the story in its sequel, The Committed, and also published the short story collection The Refugees. He also writes op-eds for The New York Times.