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Ocean Vuong

オーシャン・ヴぉん

Ocean Vuong

別名: Vương Quốc Vinh

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1988-01-01 （Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam）
国籍
United States
言語
English, Vietnamese
宗教
Zen Buddhism
居住地歴
Hartford, Connecticut, United States → New York City, United States → Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

経歴

職業
poet, writer, professor
活動期間
2010年〜
所属
New York University (creative writing faculty; Artist-in-Residence), University of Massachusetts Amherst (MFA Program faculty), Asian/Pacific/American Institute (NYU)
影響を受けた人物
Ben Lerner (mentor/teacher)

学歴

Brooklyn College (City University of New York)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences / English
学位: B.A. (English)
期間: 在学期間不明（2000年代〜2010年代）
卒業年: 2012
国: United States
Received an Academy of American Poets College Prize while attending
New York University
Graduate School of Arts / Poetry (MFA)
学位: M.F.A. (Poetry)
期間: 在学期間不明（MFAプログラム）
卒業年: 2016
国: United States
Earned an MFA in poetry

受賞歴

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship
2014
主催: Poetry Foundation
結果: 受賞
Whiting Award
2016
主催: Whiting Foundation
結果: 受賞
T. S. Eliot Prize
2017
対象作品: Night Sky with Exit Wounds
主催: T. S. Eliot Prize
結果: 受賞
MacArthur Fellowship
2019
主催: MacArthur Fellows Program
結果: 受賞（助成）
Forward Prizes for Poetry
2017
対象作品: Night Sky with Exit Wounds
主催: Forward Prizes
結果: 受賞/ノミネート（具体的区分は資料による）
Pushcart Prize
主催: Pushcart Press
結果: 受賞/選出（年次不明）

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

2016年 Poetry 96ページ

A debut collection of poems that intertwines immigration, war, family, and the body, blending personal experience with historical memory in lyrical pieces.

immigrationVietnam War legacyfamilylossphysicality

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

2019年 Novel / Epistolary-style prose 256ページ

A largely autobiographical novel framed as a letter to the narrator's mother, dealing with immigrant memory, queer love, and questions of language and identity.

memory and traumafamilyqueernesslanguage
翻訳
  • Has translations into multiple languages (Japanese edition exists)

Time Is a Mother

2022年 Poetry 96ページ

A collection addressing grief and renewal after the death of the poet's mother, combining personal mourning, moments of humor, and reflections on language.

lossmotherhoodgriefrenewal

The Emperor of Gladness

2025年 Novel 320ページ

A novel exploring work, family, and found community. Upon publication it was selected for Oprah's Book Club and received broad attention.

workfamilycommunity

全著作

  • Burnings (chapbook)
  • No (chapbook)
  • Night Sky with Exit Wounds (poetry, 2016)
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (novel, 2019)
  • Time Is a Mother (poetry, 2022)
  • The Emperor of Gladness (novel, 2025)

作風・主題

文体
lyrical, intimate narrationfragmentary, poetic proseimagistic and metaphor-driven language
頻出モチーフ
immigration and diasporamotherhood and family historywar memorybody and sexual identitylimits of language and translation

健康

  • Suspected dyslexia
    幼少期〜青年期
    Required extra time to acquire reading and writing in childhood, which later informed his distinctive approach to language and writing.

評価・遺産

Known internationally for work that layers immigrant experience, family history, and queerness, Vuong has influenced a generation of poets and writers; his collections and novels have received major awards and critical recognition.

関連学会

  • Academy of American Poets (associated)

大衆文化への影響

  • The Emperor of Gladness selected for Oprah's Book Club (2025)

引用

  • “Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer.”
    出典: Interview / Literary Hub (quoted commentary) (2019年)

豆知識

  • Named 'Ocean' after a customer suggested the word when his mother mispronounced 'beach'.
  • Wrote the poetry collection Time Is a Mother following his mother's death.
  • Is openly gay and practices Zen Buddhism.