Ocean Vuong (born Vương Quốc Vinh, October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and novelist. Vuong is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize for his poetry. His debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, was published in 2019. He received a MacArthur Grant the same year.
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14 October 1988 (age 36) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Zodiac | Libra |
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