Viet Thanh Nguyen adds Edgar award to Pulitzer triumph

Debut novel The Sympathizer follows win at the US’s top fiction prize with leading honour for crime writing

Fresh from winning a Pulitzer prize, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel The Sympathizer has landed the best first novel prize in the US’s top awards for crime fiction.

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