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Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American writer who has received numerous awards and nominations. His three separate poems – Prayer for the Newly Damned, Telemachus, and Self Portrait as Exit Wounds – respectively won the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize before being published as a complete collection of poems.
Vuong's poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, was one of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2016.[1] It's earned him a series of prestigious awards such as the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Thom Gunn Award, the Whiting Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The book was also a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Awards.[2]
Three years later, Ocean Vuong released his debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, which continued to earn him many of the first literary awards in his career such as the American Book Awards, the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature, the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and the New England Book Award for Fiction. It was named one of the best book of the year by Time, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal and many more.[3] The book was longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Fiction, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. The novel was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Kirkus Prize and the Lambda Literary Awards.
In addition to his literary achievements, Vuong also received grants from many organizations to provide financial support throughout his career. In 2014, Vuong was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Five years later, he was named a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship as well as other prestigious scholarships from the Lannan Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, Kundiman, and Poets House.[4][5] In 2015, he was named by BuzzFeed as one of the "32 Essential Asian American Writers" and selected by Foreign Policy as a "2016 100 Leading Global Thinker" alongside Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-moon, and Angela Merkel.[6]
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko; Garner, Dwight; Senior, Jennifer; Maslin, Janet (December 14, 2016). "Times Critics' Top Books of 2016". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
- ^ "Ocean Vuong". Poetry Archive. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
- ^ "Domestic Violence Awareness : Print Books". UNH Research Guides. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel". Colorado Christian University. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (Paperback)". Harvard Book Store. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2024. - ^ "Reading and Conversation with Ocean Vuong". Harvard Radcliffe Institute. April 8, 2021. Archived from the original on January 2, 2024. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
- ^ "Poet and Novelist Ocean Vuong Reading Followed by Conversation With Dao Strom". Pacific Northwest College of Art. April 12, 2021. Archived from the original on July 8, 2023. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
- ^ "Visiting Writers Series Hosts Ocean Vuong Reading and Book Signing". University of Massachusetts Amherst. Archived from the original on January 2, 2024. Retrieved January 2, 2024.