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Ocean Vuong awards and nominations
Vuong at the 2016 Split This Rock

Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American writer who has received numerous awards and nominations. His three separate poems – Prayer for the Newly Damned, Telemachus, and Self Portrait as Exit Wounds – respectively won the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize before being published as a complete collection of poems.

Vuong's poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, was one of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2016.[1] It's earned him a series of prestigious awards such as the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Thom Gunn Award, the Whiting Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The book was also a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Awards.[2]

Three years later, Ocean Vuong released his debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, which continued to earn him many of the first literary awards in his career such as the American Book Awards, the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature, the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and the New England Book Award for Fiction. It was named one of the best book of the year by Time, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal and many more.[3] The book was longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Fiction, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. The novel was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Kirkus Prize and the Lambda Literary Awards.

In addition to his literary achievements, Vuong also received grants from many organizations to provide financial support throughout his career. In 2014, Vuong was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Five years later, he was named a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship as well as other prestigious scholarships from the Lannan Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, Kundiman, and Poets House.[4][5] In 2015, he was named by BuzzFeed as one of the "32 Essential Asian American Writers" and selected by Foreign Policy as a "2016 100 Leading Global Thinker" alongside Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-moon, and Angela Merkel.[6]

Literature[edit]

Organizations[a] Year[b] Category Work Result Ref.
American Library Association 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Longlisted [7]
Stonewall Book Award for Literature Honored [8]
Aspen Words 2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlisted [9]
Before Columbus Foundation 2020 American Book Awards Won [10]
Beloit Poetry Journal 2013 The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize Telemachus Won [11]
Bibliotekets litteraturpris 2022 Literature for Adults On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Nominated [12]
Brooklyn Public Library 2020 Literary Prize for Fiction/Poetry Won [13]
Claremont Graduate University 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Night Sky with Exit Wounds Finalist [14]
Connecticut Book Awards 2020 Fiction On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Won [15]
Digital Book World 2019 Best Book (Fiction) Won [16]
Dublin City Libraries 2021 International Dublin Literary Award Finalist[c] [17]
Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 Novel Finalist[c] [18]
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds Won [19]
Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 Best Poetry Nominated [20]
2019 Best Debut Novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Nominated [21]
Best Fiction Nominated
2022 Best Poetry Time Is a Mother Nominated [22]
Griffin Poetry Prize 2023 Poetry Finalist[c] [23]
Kirkus Reviews 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Finalist [24]
Lambda Literary Awards 2017 Gay Poetry Night Sky with Exit Wounds Finalist [25]
2020 Gay Fiction On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Finalist [26]
Mark Twain House 2020 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Won [27]
Massachusetts Book Award 2020 Fiction Won [28]
Narrative Magazine 2015 Narrative Prize No One Knows the Way to Heaven Won [29]
National Book Award 2019 Fiction On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Longlisted [30]
New England Book Awards 2019 Fiction Won [31]
PEN America 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted [32]
PEN/Faulkner Foundation 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist [33]
Publishing Triangle 2017 Thom Gunn Award Night Sky with Exit Wounds Won [34]
2020 Ferro-Grumley Award On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Won [35]
Pushcart Prize 2013 Poetry Self Portrait as Exit Wounds Won [36]
T. S. Eliot Prize 2018 Poetry Night Sky with Exit Wounds Won [37]
The American Poetry Review 2012 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize Prayer for the Newly Damned Won [38]
The Center for Fiction 2019 First Novel Prize On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Finalist[c] [39]
Whiting Award 2016 Poetry Night Sky with Exit Wounds Won [40]

Career awards[edit]

Fellowship & Grant[edit]

Organization Year Award Ref.
Academy of American Poets 2010 College Poetry Prize [41]
Civitella Ranieri Foundation 2016 Fellow [42]
Elizabeth George Foundation 2014 Fellowship [43]
2015 [44]
Kundiman 2012 Fellow [45]
Lannan Literary Awards 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship [46]
MacArthur Foundation 2019 MacArthur Fellowship [47]
Poetry Foundation 2014 Ruth Lilly / Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships [48]
Poets House 2013 Emerging Poets Fellowship [49]
NAAAP 2020 Pride Award [50]
United States Artists 2021 USA Fellowships [51]

Residences[edit]

Organization Year Programme Ref.
Asian/Pacific/American Institute 2019–20 Artist-in-Residence [52]
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts 2013 Residency [53]

Listicles[edit]

Publisher Category Year Ref.
BuzzFeed 32 Essential Asian-American Writers 2015 [54]
Foreign Policy The Leading Global Thinkers of 2016 2016 [55]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Awards, festivals, honors and other miscellaneous organizations are listed in alphabetical order.
  2. ^ Indicates the year of ceremony.
  3. ^ a b c d This is also the final list before announcing the winners.

References[edit]

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