Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer (2015) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other awards, and was turned into an HBO limited series. His other books include The Committed (2021), the sequel to The Sympathizer, and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction. He is also the author of the best-selling short story collection The Refugees (2017) and two children’s books, Chicken of the Sea (written with his son Ellison, 2019) and Simone (2024). Besides editing The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives (2018), he teaches at the University of Southern California, where he is a University Professor. His next book was To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, published by Harvard University Press in 2025. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations.