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Ocean Vuong (born Vương Quốc Vinh, Vietnamese: [vɨəŋ˧ kuək˧˥ viɲ˧]; born 14 October, 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize.
Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, wi nner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages.
Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY). In his poems, he often explores transformation, desire, and violent loss. In a 2013 interview with Edward J. Rathke, Vuong discussed the relationship between form and content…
Apr 14, 2022 · Ocean Vuong is an Asian American writer, best known for his 2019 debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 36 languages.
Apr 2, 2022 · Sat 2 Apr 2022 04.00 EDT. I nside my head the war is everywhere,” writes the Vietnamese-American author Ocean Vuong in a line from his new poetry collection Time Is a Mother. “I hate to say it,...
Oct 14, 1988 · Ocean Vuong is the author of the debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, out from Penguin Press (2019). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds , a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for ...
Apr 4, 2022 · Jacob Conrad. , Rachel Martin. Enlarge this image. Poet Ocean Vuong writes about loss and grief, but also discovery. Tom Hines. The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother...
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