Ocean Vuong

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Ocean Vuong, 2015

Ocean Vuong , b. Vương Quốc Vinh (born October 14, 1988 in Ho Chi Minh City ) is a Vietnamese-American poet , literary scholar and writer .

biography

Vuong grew up on a rice farm in Ho Chi Minh City. In 1990 he and six other relatives emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut , after spending a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines . He studied English literature with a BA at Brooklyn College , among others with Ben Lerner . He then completed his studies with an MFA in poetry from New York University . Vuong's texts and poems have been published in many English-language journals. Vuong is openly gay. He is a practicing Zen Buddhist .

Vuong currently lives in Northampton , Massachusetts and is an assistant professor in the Masters of Fine Arts program for writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst .

Vietnam War

In his novel, On Earth We Are Briefly, grandiose, he exposes the myth of the American dream and shows how the Vietnam War poisoned many souls to this day. With his debut novel - a hybrid of prose, essay and poem - he develops a new form of political literature and shows how war hardens the body and life in a structurally violent society in the USA. He received great praise from professional circles for his literary skills.

Support for Kamila Shamsie

In September 2019, Vuong and around 300 cultural workers criticized the city of Dortmund for awarding the Nelly Sachs Prize to the writer Kamila Shamsie for supporting the controversial BDS campaign ( Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel), which the jury did not discuss was informed, had revoked.

Works

novel
  • On earth we are briefly terrific . From the American by Anne-Kristin Mittag. Hanser, Munich 2019.
Poetry
  • Night sky with exit wounds. Poems. , 232 p., Bilingual, from English by Anne-Kristin Mittag, Hanser Verlag, Munich 2020.

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Ocean Vuong  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Wenger: How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language. In: The New Yorker . April 7, 2016, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ What Scares Writer and Zen Buddhist Ocean Vuong , tricycle.org, August 16, 2017, accessed June 9, 2020 (in English)
  3. ↑ Luzia Stettler: 52 best books - «On earth we are briefly grandiose» by Ocean Vuong. In: Swiss Radio SRF. October 6, 2019, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Ocean Vuongs debut: From life as a product of the war. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Insa Wilke : Ocean Vuong: "On earth we are briefly grandiose" - Certainly permanently grandiose , review on deutschlandfunk.de of July 21, 2019, accessed June 9, 2020
  6. ^ Controversy over criticism of Israel , Zeit online, September 26, 2019
  7. ↑ Open letter to the jury , Süddeutsche online, 23 September 2019
  8. ↑ Khuê Phạm: "I learned to be a chameleon". In: The time. October 1, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Dorothea Dieckmann : Ocean Vuong: "Night sky with exit wounds" From love and war , review on deutschlandfunk.de from May 26, 2020, accessed June 9, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Vuong, Ocean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vương, Quốc Vinh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese-American poet, literary scholar, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Ho Chi Minh City