Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in September as its first Asian American and Vietnamese American member.
Nguyen, a professor at the University of Southern California, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Sympathizer.
The Pulitzer co-chairs—Stephen Engelberg of ProPublica and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez of the Miami Herald—said in a statement they were “delighted” at Nguyen’s addition to the board.
“His remarkable range of experiences as a novelist, journalist, essayist, and scholar make him a wonderful addition to the board in this time of extraordinary ferment,” they said.