# List of awards and nominations received by Ocean Vuong

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. 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.
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. 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. 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.

## Literature

| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| American Library Association | 2020 | Andrew Carnegie Medals | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Longlisted |
| American Library Association | 2020 | Stonewall Book Award for Literature | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Honored |
| Aspen Words | 2020 | Aspen Words Literary Prize | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Longlisted |
| Before Columbus Foundation | 2020 | American Book Awards | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Won |
| Beloit Poetry Journal | 2013 | The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize | Telemachus | Won |
| Bibliotekets litteraturpris | 2022 | Literature for Adults | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Nominated |
| Brooklyn Public Library | 2020 | Literary Prize for Fiction/Poetry | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Won |
| Claremont Graduate University | 2017 | Kate Tufts Discovery Award | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Finalist |
| Connecticut Book Awards | 2020 | Fiction | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Won |
| Digital Book World | 2019 | Best Book (Fiction) | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Won |
| Dublin City Libraries | 2021 | International Dublin Literary Award | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Shortlisted |
| Dylan Thomas Prize | 2020 | Novel | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Shortlisted |
| Forward Prizes for Poetry | 2017 | Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Won |
| Goodreads Choice Awards | 2016 | Best Poetry | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Nominated |
| Goodreads Choice Awards | 2019 | Best Debut Novel | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Nominated |
| Goodreads Choice Awards | 2019 | Best Fiction | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Nominated |
| Goodreads Choice Awards | 2022 | Best Poetry | Time Is a Mother | Nominated |
| Griffin Poetry Prize | 2023 | Poetry | Time Is a Mother | Shortlisted |
| Kirkus Reviews | 2019 | Kirkus Prize for Fiction | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Finalist |
| Lambda Literary Awards | 2017 | Gay Poetry | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Finalist |
| Lambda Literary Awards | 2020 | Gay Fiction | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Finalist |
| Mark Twain House | 2020 | Mark Twain American Voice in Literature | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Won |
| Massachusetts Book Award | 2020 | Fiction | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Won |
| National Association of Asian American Professionals | 2020 | NAAAP Pride Award | — | Honored |
| Narrative Magazine | 2015 | Narrative Prize | No One Knows the Way to Heaven | Won |
| National Book Award | 2019 | Fiction | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Longlisted |
| New England Book Awards | 2019 | Fiction | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Won |
| PEN America | 2020 | PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Longlisted |
| PEN/Faulkner Foundation | 2020 | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Finalist |
| Publishing Triangle | 2017 | Thom Gunn Award | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Won |
| Publishing Triangle | 2020 | Ferro-Grumley Award | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Won |
| Pushcart Prize | 2013 | Poetry | Self Portrait as Exit Wounds | Won |
| T. S. Eliot Prize | 2018 | Poetry | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Won |
| The American Poetry Review | 2012 | Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize | Prayer for the Newly Damned | Won |
| The Center for Fiction | 2019 | First Novel Prize | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Shortlisted |
| Whiting Award | 2016 | Poetry | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Won |

## Career awards
### Fellowship & Grant

| Organization | Year | Award |
| Academy of American Poets | 2010 | College Poetry Prize |
| Civitella Ranieri Foundation | 2016 | Fellow |
| Elizabeth George Foundation | 2014 | Fellowship |
| Elizabeth George Foundation | 2015 | Fellowship |
| Kundiman | 2012 | Fellow |
| Lannan Literary Awards | 2016 | Lannan Literary Fellowship |
| MacArthur Foundation | 2019 | MacArthur Fellowship |
| Poetry Foundation | 2014 | Ruth Lilly / Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships |
| Poets House | 2013 | Emerging Poets Fellowship |
| United States Artists | 2021 | USA Fellowships |

### Residences

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

### Listicles

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