After Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2015 novel, “The Sympathizer,” his life got exponentially busier. Work on his next novel, “The Committed,” which comes out this month, was often ...

The Vietnamese-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen has long written on themes of war, refugees and exile. He covers those directly and personally in a new memoir about his own family ...

In "The Committed" (Grove Press), a sequel to the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Sympathizer," author Viet Thanh Nguyen follows his communist spy protagonist as he arrives in 1980s Paris ...

For the Traveler’s Tale series, we ask fiction and non-fiction writers to share one of their most indelible travel memories. I HAVE SEEN the City of Light, many times, and the killing caves of ...

I’ve been searching for a quote — just one, a simple sentence that speaks to truth — to explain what it means to be a refugee, to be among the millions of people whose voices we so rarely hear. Nguyen ...

Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, San Jose-reared novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen has become one of the leading voices of the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States. But he didn’t think his own ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a professor of English, American studies and ethnicity, and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. His novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize ...