# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viet-thanh-nguyen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:01:16.182Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/viet-thanh-nguyen"
name: "Viet Thanh Nguyen"
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description: "Viet Thanh Nguyen is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California."
tagline: "American author of fiction"
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birthDate: "1971-03-13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump