Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong

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About Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is the author of the debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, out from Penguin Press (2019) and forthcoming in 12 other languages worldwide. 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 Best First Collection. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize.

Vuong's writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 100 Leading Global Thinker, alongside Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-Moon and Justin Trudeau, Ocean was also named by BuzzFeed Books as one of "32 Essential Asian American Writers" and has been profiled on NPR's "All Things Considered," PBS NewsHour, Teen Vogue, VICE, The Fantastic Man, and The New Yorker.

Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at Umass-Amherst.

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel Jun 4, 2019

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds May 23, 2016

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En la Tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos (Panorama de narrativas nº 1022) (Spanish Edition) Feb 26, 2020

by Ocean Vuong , Jesús Zulaika Goicoechea

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Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra (Italian Edition) Mar 12, 2020

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Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios Jul 22, 2019

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Cielo nocturno con heridas de fuego (Spanish Edition) Jan 30, 2019

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Burnings Nov 15, 2010

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