Viet Thanh Nguyen
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican author of fiction
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.
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Fiction and nonfiction accomplish very different things, but they can overlap. I wanted my fiction to seem nonfictional, and my nonfiction to seem fictional.
On the congruent nature of fiction and nonfiction in “Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides” in The Writer (2017 Jan 17)
Implicitly, the novel insists that a true war story has to take into account not just combat and soldiers, but civilians, the home front, and the military-industrial complex.
On his work The Sympathizer in “Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides” in The Writer (2017 Jan 17)
It's taken me a long time to understand how deeply traumatic that was, that that experience remains an invisible brand stamped between my shoulder blades.
On fleeing from Saigon as a toddler in “Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Discusses 'The Sympathizer' And His Escape From Vietnam” in NPR (2016 May
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Kelly Marie TranAlso in We Were the Scenery (2025)
Michael ConnellyAlso won Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
Fred VargasAlso won German Crime Fiction Award
Yann MartelAlso won Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
Patricia CornwellAlso won Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
Amy TanAlso won Asian/Pacific American Awards for LiteratureAbout this person
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