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Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Sympathizer"

Viet Thanh Nguyen teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and the novel The Sympathizer, from Grove/Atlantic (2015). The Sympathizer won the Pulitizer Prize for Fiction in 2016 as well as the  First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal for  Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association.

Viet will read from his fictional and non-fictional works.

Viet has been named a Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow. His talk is co-sponsored by Illuminations, the International Center for Writing and Translation, Asian American Studies, Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project, and the South East Asian Archives.