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The 2016-2017 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series presents Viet Thanh Nguyen,

25 January 2017:  The 2016-2017 Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Series presents Viet Thanh Nguyen, 6 p.m., Crystal Cove Auditorium.  To rsvp and for more information, please see:  http://illuminations.uci.edu/events/2017_1_25_Viet_Thanh_Nguyen%20.html
Viet Thanh Nguyen 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. Currently, he teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.