Nguyen Thanh Viet.
Nguyen Thanh Viet wins Pulitzer prize
Nguyen
Thanh Viet has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his 2015
novel "The Sympathizer", the Pulitzer Prize Board announced on April 18.
Vietnam Net News | 19 April 2016
The novel follows a
half-Vietnamese, half-French officer in the Southern Vietnamese military forces
who is also a Northern Vietnamese spy, taking place in the days immediately
before the fall of Saigon as well as during initial period of mass Vietnamese
immigration to the United States.
"The Sympathizer" is
also a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2015 Los Angeles Times
Book Prize and was named one of the New York Times' 100 notable books of 2015.
Thanh Viet was born in Buon Ma
Thuot city, in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. He is an associate professor at the
University of Southern California and editor of diaCRITICS.
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