Ocean Vuong
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Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)
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Ocean Vuong appears in Vinony's MacArthur Fellows collection — one of 1,138 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 171 inbound references to Ocean Vuong, and connects out to Ho Chi Minh City, Michigan and Vietnam War.
It is catalogued under topics including 1988 births, 21st-century American Buddhists and 21st-century American essayists.
Vinony links it to 21 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- New York University
- Employer
- New York University
- Languages spoken
- Vietnamese
- Notable work
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Field of work
- essay
- Official website
- www.oceanvuong.com
- Image
- Ocean vuong 8045064 (48458986647) (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Massachusetts
- Residence
- Northampton
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- birth name
- Vương Quốc Vinh
- date of birth
- 1988-10-14
- ethnic group
- Vietnamese Americans
- Commons category
- Ocean Vuong
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- name in native language
- Ocean Vuong
- writing language
- English language
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/magazine/ocean-vuong-interview.html
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