Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel, The Sympathizer, also a New York Times Best Book of the Year, among many other honors. He is also the author of the novel The Committed, the sequel to The Sympathizer, as well as the story collection The Refugees. His fiction has been anthologized in A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, and his story “Fatherland” won Third Place in Narrative’s 2011 Winter Story Contest. Nguyen has published several nonfiction titles, including Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Born in Vietnam, he teaches at the University of Southern California.
Photograph by Webb Chappell.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Fatherland, a short story, in Spring 2011
- Arthur Arellano, a short story, in Spring 2010
- Someone Else Besides You, a short story, in Winter 2008