Viet Thanh Nguyen Q&A: “My earliest memory? Being taken to school on a Vespa”

Viet Thanh Nguyen is an award-winning novelist and professor of English and American studies.

His debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction .

In another life, he would like to have been born in the U.S. in the 1950s .

He says we should look up to political movements, whose collective virtues outweigh individual failures.