Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, The Sympathizer. That book also won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. He was given a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. Nguyen writes opinion essays about immigration, refugees, politics, culture and South East Asia for The New York Times.