Vu Tran
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Vu Hoang Tran | |
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| Born | September 17, 1975 (age 49) Saigon, Vietnam |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | Dragonfish: A Novel (2015) |
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Vu Hoang Tran (born 1975; Vietnamese name: Trần, Hoàng Vũ) is a Vietnamese American novelist and short story writer. His debut novel, Dragonfish, was published in 2015.[1]
Life
[edit]Vu Hoang Tran was born in 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam. In 1980, he and his family fled the country by boat and ended up in the refugee camps in Pulau Bidong, off the coast of Malaysia, for four months. They settled in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Tran grew up.
He graduated from the University of Tulsa with a BA and MA in English, received his MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and then finished his PhD in English and Creative Writing at the Black Mountain Institute[2] at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction.[3] Since 2010, he has been teaching literature and fiction writing at the University of Chicago,[4] where he directs the undergraduate program in creative writing.
Awards
[edit]- 2018 National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Writing Fellow[5]
- 2015 New York Times Notable Books[6]
- 2011 Finalist Award, Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature[7]
- 2009 Whiting Writers' Award[8]
- 2004 Lawrence Foundation Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review
- 2003 Short-Story Award for New Writers, Glimmer Train Stories
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Dragonfish (W. W. Norton & Co., 2015)[1]
Other Publications
[edit]- “Origins,” Ploughshares, Summer 2019
- “Under the Murakami Spell,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2019
- “A Refugee Again,” The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, 2018
- “War and Peace and Nostalgia,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2018
- “This Or Any Desert,” The Best American Mystery Stories, 2009
- “The Gift of Years,” The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2008
- “A Painted Face” The Southern Review, Winter 2005
- “Monsoon,” Glimmer Train Stories, Winter 2003
References
[edit]- ^ Abania, Chris (August 10, 2015). "Vu Tran's 'Dragonfish'". The New York Times.
- ^ "Homepage - Black Mountain Institute". blackmountaininstitute.org. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ^ "Fellowships - Black Mountain Institute". blackmountaininstitute.org. May 29, 2019. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ^ "Creative Writing & Poetry and Poetics | Creative Writing". creativewriting.uchicago.edu. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ^ "Vu Tran". www.arts.gov. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ^ "100 Notable Books of 2015". The New York Times. November 27, 2015. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ^ "Vu Tran". Vilcek Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ^ "Vu Tran | Whiting Foundation". www.whiting.org. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
External Links
[edit]| International | |
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- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century Vietnamese writers
- American writers of Vietnamese descent
- Writers from Ho Chi Minh City
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- University of Tulsa alumni
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas alumni
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty
- Vietnamese crime fiction writers
- Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
- 1975 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American short story writers