Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he is also a member of the steering committee for the Center for Transpacific Studies. The Vietnamese-American novelist is the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winner for his novel The Sympathizer and a 2017 MacArthur fellow.
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