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Viet Thanh Nguyen

1971 - Today

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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and many other accolades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viet Thanh Nguyen has received more than 841,080 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Viet Thanh Nguyen is the 6,326th most popular writer (down from 5,671st in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Vietnamese Writer.

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  • 840k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 32.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Viet Thanh Nguyen ranks 6,326 out of 5,755. Before him are Lena Andersson, George Monbiot, Laura Gallego García, Paul Beatty, Garth Nix, and Eka Kurniawan. After him are Jokha Alharthi, Ramachandra Guha, Lev Grossman, Marguerite Abouet, Scott Smith, and Rebecca Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Viet Thanh Nguyen ranks 721. Before him are Paul Sparks, Nicoleta Grasu, Svetlana Gladysheva, Byambasuren Davaa, Pascal Renier, and Susan Misner. After him are Daniel Petrov, Khaled Massad, Lisa Marie Varon, Sara Blakely, Marguerite Abouet, and Pawan Kalyan.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Viet Thanh Nguyen ranks 111 out of 124. Before him are Dustin Nguyen (1962), Hoàng Xuân Vinh (1974), Ngô Thanh Vân (1979), Nguyễn Công Phượng (1995), Scotty Nguyen (1962), and Lana Condor (1997). After him are Trần Hiếu Ngân (1974), Nguyễn Tiến Minh (1983), Sơn Tùng M-TP (1994), Hoang Thanh Trang (1980), Nguyễn Quang Hải (1997), and Nguyễn Tuấn Anh (1995).

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Among WRITERS In Vietnam

Among writers born in Vietnam, Viet Thanh Nguyen ranks 8. Before him are Nguyễn Du (1765), Phan Bội Châu (1867), Phan Thi Kim Phuc (1963), Hồ Xuân Hương (1772), Dương Thu Hương (1947), and Kim Thúy (1968).

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