Viet Thanh Nguyen
Forfatter af The Sympathizer
Om forfatteren
Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Ban Me Thuot, Viet Nam. In 1975, he came to the United States as a refugee with his family. He received degrees in English and ethnic studies from the University of California Berkeley. After receiving a Ph.D. in English from Berkeley, he began teaching at the vis mere University of Southern California and has been there ever since. He is an associate professor of English and American studies and ethnicity. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. The novel The Sympathizer won the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction, and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His latsest novel is The Refugees. He co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field with Janet Hoskins. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Photo by Webb Chappell found at Narrative Magazine
Serier
Værker af Viet Thanh Nguyen
Associated Works
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Bidragyder — 186 eksemplarer
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Bidragyder — 138 eksemplarer
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 (The Best American Series ®) (2019) — Bidragyder — 41 eksemplarer
How Do I Explain This to My Kids?: Parenting in the Age of Trump (2017) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 13 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1971-03-31
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Vietnam (birth)
USA - Fødested
- Buon Me Thuot, Viet Nam
- Bopæl
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
San Jose, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Uddannelse
- University of California, Berkeley (BA - Ethnic Studies, BA - English, PhD - English)
- Erhverv
- professor (English and American Studies and Ethnicity)
- Organisationer
- University of Southern California
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Phi Beta Kappa
MacArthur Fellowship
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- 7
- Medlemmer
- 5,864
- Popularitet
- #4,208
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- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 239
- ISBN
- 117
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- 16
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