--- title: Viet Thanh Nguyễn | TIME description: Nguyễn was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel The Sympathizerwon the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards. His latest book is To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other canonical: https://time.com/author/viet-thanh-nguyen/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/viet-thanh-nguyen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Viet Thanh Nguyễn ## Viet Thanh Nguyễn Nguyễn was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel [_The Sympathizer_](https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-sympathizer/)won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards. His latest book is [_To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other_](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/viet-thanh-nguyen-to-save-and-destroy-on-writing-as-an-other) ## Viet Thanh Nguyễn *  Apr 28, 2025 ### [How America Became Afraid of the Other](https://time.com/7280423/immigrants-refugees-america-afraid-of-the-other-essay/) "Punishing assorted others quells empathy and dissent, for we do not want to be targeted ourselves,"... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 12, 2021 ### [What Amanda Gorman Teaches Us About Our Shared America](https://time.com/5938544/amanda-gorman-poem-america/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 25, 2020 ### [Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All](https://time.com/5859206/anti-asian-racism-america/) Asian Americans have embraced a country that passed a law to keep them out. The real American dream ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 6, 2019 ### [_On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous_ Is a Daring Tale of Queer Love and Pain](https://time.com/5601993/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-book-review/) [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Jan 17, 2019 ### [The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most](https://time.com/5505453/martin-luther-king-beyond-vietnam/) Viet Thanh Nguyen on Dr. King's 1967 speech ‘Beyond Vietnam’ [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 15, 2018 ### [I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It](https://time.com/5455490/american-like-me/) What it means to love my country, no matter how it feels about me [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 30, 2016 ### [Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Immigrant's Fate Is Everyone's](https://time.com/4389128/the-immigrants-fate-is-everyones/) [U.S.](/section/us/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/viet-thanh-nguyen/","name":"Viet Thanh Nguyễn"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/viet-thanh-nguyen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/viet-thanh-nguyen/"},"name":"Viet Thanh Nguyễn","jobTitle":"Nguyễn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. His latest book is To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other","description":"Nguyễn was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His novel The Sympathizerwon the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards. His latest book is To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other","url":"https://time.com/author/viet-thanh-nguyen/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```