viet thanh nguyen the sympathizer review

Nguyen attended UCLA for a quarter and University of California, Riverside for a year before finishing his studies at University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in May 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Ethnic Studies. Patrick School, a Catholic elementary school, and went on to Bellarmine College Preparatory. While growing up in San Jose, Nguyen attended St.

He often enjoyed reading literature about the Vietnam War, preferably those from the Vietnamese perspectives, which were rather rare at the time in comparison with the overwhelming amount of the American narratives. His family later moved to San Jose, California, where they opened up a Vietnamese grocery store, one of the first of its kind in the area. Nguyen's family then moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania until 1978. Nguyen's family first settled in Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, which was one of four American camps that accommodated refugees from Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon, in 1975, his family fled to the United States. Nguyen was born in Ban Mê Thuột, Vietnam in 1971, the son of refugees from North Vietnam who moved south in 1954. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Nguyen is a regular contributor, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, covering immigration, refugees, politics, culture and South East Asia.

He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and many other accolades. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Viet Thanh Nguyen ( Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist. In this article, the surname is Nguyễn but is often simplified to Nguyen in English-language text.

Viet thanh nguyen the sympathizer review