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Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Sympathizer and its sequel, The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is also the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002), a collection of stories, The Refugees (Grove 2017), and editor of the anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives (Harry N. Abrams 2018). Visit his web site.

15 January, 2022 • Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Displaced, the Unwanted, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel "The Sympathizer," remembers where he came from and how he began his writer's journey.

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