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Ocean Vuong

États-Unis · Sur la carte · Écrivains · Naissance en 1988 · 38 ans

Ocean Vuong, né Vương Quốc Vinh le 14 octobre 1988 à Hô Chi Minh-Ville, au Viêt Nam, est un poète, romancier et essayiste américain. Il arrive aux États-Unis à l'âge de 2 ans et grandit dans le Connecticut. En 2016, Vuong obtient le prix Whiting (en) en poésie pour son recueil de poésie Night Sky with Exit Wounds.

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Ocean Vuong : environ 768 lectures par jour, en 21 langues.

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2022“When I really assess Western culture in how it grapples with other bodies and other ecologies of thinking, at the end of the day, my response is: please catch up.”Ses propres motsmars 2022On how Western culture fails to realize the interconnectedness of metaphors in “INTERVIEW WITH OCEAN VUONG” in The White Review (mars 2022)

“We’re talking about a claim to storytelling. We are taught that a valid or useful education is one in medicine, science, bioengineering.”Ses propres motsmars 2022On the Western idea of claiming storytelling in “INTERVIEW WITH OCEAN VUONG” in The White Review (mars 2022)

“The world can misread us, and they will, and they have, and they won’t stop. But we do not have to misread ourselves.”Ses propres motsmars 2022On the dilemma of being Asian American in “INTERVIEW WITH OCEAN VUONG” in The White Review (mars 2022)

“...you realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. And I think, you know, this is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end.”Ses propres motsOn grief in “Poet Ocean Vuong sifts through the aftershock of grief in 'Time Is a Mother'” in NPR (2022 Apr 5)

2019“This book is as much a coming-of-age story as it is a coming-of-art.”Ses propres motsOn his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous in “Survival as a Creative Force: An Interview with Ocean Vuong” in The Paris Review (2019 Jun

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  1. The stories, at first, were folklore. My grandmother would tell a ghost story, then she would say: oh, that was after the napalm.

    On his childhood and the stories told by the women that surrounded him in “Ocean Vuong: ‘As a child I would ask: What’s napalm?’” in The, Ses propres mots

  2. I think that might not have been enough, were it not for me being my family ’s only hope. Because they were also dying, in a different way: financially, mentally.

    On being surrounded by friends taken by the opioid epidemic and his quest to be the breadwinner for his family in “Ocean Vuong: ‘As a child, Ses propres mots

  3. The incredible thing that I can never quite understand was how they were able to kick them all out.

    On his female family members having the strength to end their relationships despite being in a new country in “Ocean Vuong: ‘As a child I, Ses propres mots

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Prix T.S. Eliot

À propos de cette personne

Il obtient aussi le prix T.S. Eliot en 2017 pour le même recueil. Il est l'auteur d'un roman autobiographique paru en 2019, Un bref instant de splendeur (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous), qui explore le trauma lié à ses origines. Ce livre, considéré comme le meilleur de l'année par le Washington Post, est un succès commercial. Il est vendu à plus d'un million d'exemplaires. Formé au Brooklyn College, où il suit notamment les cours de Ben Lerner, il a enseigné l'écriture créative à NYU et à l'Université du Massachusetts, à Amherst.

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