Viet Thanh Nguyen: Fight of the Century, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Biografie (Viet Thanh Nguyen)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, geboren 1971 in Südvietnam, floh nach dem Fall von Saigon 1975 mit seinen Eltern in die USA. Er studierte Anglistik und Ethnic Studies in Berkeley und arbeitet seit seiner Promotion 1997 als Hochschullehrer an der University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Für sein Romandebüt, den internationalen Bestseller »Der Sympathisant« (Blessing, 2017), erhielt er 2016 den Pulitzer-Preis und den Edgar Award.

Biografie (Marlon James (geb. 1970))

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James lives in Minneapolis. He is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015.