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.
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