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Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer . He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field . An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity.

He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies , the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and the Fine Arts Work Center . He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the James Irvine Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation.

His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, the Chicago Tribune, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize.

His writing has been translated into Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Spanish, and he has given invited lectures in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany. He is finishing an academic book titled War, Memory, Identity.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Books from Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer

The Refugees

The Committed

The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art

Chicken of the Sea

Black-Eyed Women

Iocan - revista de proză scurtă anul 3 / nr. 7

One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America

Ploughshares Summer 2019

Ploughshares Summer 2016 Guest-Edited by Claire Messud & James Wood

Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field

Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-first-Century Perspectives

An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain

An-My L� on Contested Terrain (Signed Edition)