Viet Thanh Nguyen
Autor von The Sympathizer
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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- 1971-03-31
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- Vietnam (birth)
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- Buon Me Thuot, Viet Nam
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- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley (BA - Ethnic Studies, BA - English, PhD - English)
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- professor (English and American Studies and Ethnicity)
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- University of Southern California
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