Viet Thanh Nguyen

Born in 1971 in Vietnam and brought to the United States as a refugee in 1975, Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American author. He won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Sympathizer and is a professor at the University of Southern California.

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (The Sympathizer); born 1971; came to the United States as a refugee in 1975; teaches at the University of Southern California; author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees.

The provided review treats The Sympathizer as a major literary work exploring split identity and the ambiguities of allegiance during and after the Vietnam War. The novel's first-person narrator is a double agent whose divided nature drives the book's moral and existential questions. The review highlights Nguyen's refugee background and notes the book's 2016 Pulitzer Prize.

For:Readers of literary fiction, students of war and diaspora studies, and those interested in identity and moral ambiguity.