Cawelti Award for Best Textbook/Primer from the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association, and the René Wellek Prize for an outstanding work of comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association. His book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War from Harvard University Press (2016, foreign rights to five countries), was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction, and the winner of two book awards: the John G. He is also the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and the co-editor of Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field(University of Hawaii Press, 2014). Its sequel, The Committed, is now available. The foreign rights have been sold to twenty-eight countries. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the PEN Faulkner Award, and an LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category, The Sympathizer made it to over thirty best of the year lists, including those of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly,, Public Books, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Library Journal, Flavorwire, and BuzzFeed, among other venues. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence from the American Library Association, a California Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association.

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture

Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LifeĬenter for Islamic Thought, Culture and PracticeĬenter for Latinx and Latin American Studies

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