![]() ![]() The Pulitzer Prize is a worthy acknowledgment of the profound impact of his widely read and lauded first novel. Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize win puts him in the illustrious company of such doyens of American literature as John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Edith Wharton, Harper Lee, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, all previous Pulitzer recipients. Nguyen won the award for his first novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015), which explores the Vietnam War through the lens of his conflicted protagonist, an American-educated spy for the Viet Cong. ![]() The 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, one of America’s most prestigious literary honors, has been awarded to Viet Thanh Nguyen, associate professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. ![]()
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