Linh Dinh
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He was a 1993 Pew Fellow.[2]
Biography
Dinh came to the US in 1975, lived mostly in Philadelphia. Since 2018, he has lived mostly in Southeast Asia, but also in Europe and Africa.[3][4]
In 2005, he was a David Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England.[5][6] He spent 2002–2003 in Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers and the town of Certaldo.[7][8]
He was a visiting faculty member at University of Pennsylvania.[9] From 2015–2016, Dinh was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.[10]
Career
He is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House[11] and Blood and Soap, and five books of poems: All Around What Empties Out,[12] American Tatts, Borderless Bodies, Jam Alerts, and Some Kind of Cheese Orgy. His first novel, Love Like Hate, was published in October 2010 and won the Balcones Fiction Prize.
His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004, The Best American Poetry 2007, and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present. The Village Voice picked his Blood and Soap as one of the best books of 2004.[13] Translated into Italian by Giovanni Giri, it is published in Italy as Elvis Phong è Morto.
Dinh contributed occasional columns to the fake news site Unz Review before quitting over racist treatment from commenters there. He now has a Substack page.
Works
Poetry
- Some Kind of Cheese Orgy, Chax Press, 2009, Template:ISBN
- Jam Alerts, Chax Press, 2007, Template:ISBN
- Lĩnh Đinh Chích Khoái, (Nhà xuất bản Giấy Vụn, Sài Gòn, 11.2007)
- Borderless Bodies, poetry (Factory School, 2006)
- American Tatts, poetry Chax Press, 2005, Template:ISBN
- All Around What Empties Out, Subpress, 2003, Template:ISBN
- Drunkard Boxing, Singing Horse Press, 1998, Template:ISBN
Fiction
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- Love Like Hate, Seven Stories Press, 2010, Template:ISBN
Translations
- Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, a bilingual edition of Phan Nhiên Hạo's poetry (Tupelo, 2006)[14]
Editor
- Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 1996)[15]
- Three Vietnamese Poets, translations (Tinfish, 2001)[16]
- Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam, anthology, Seven Stories, 1996, Template:ISBN
Anthologies
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External links
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- 20th-century American poets
- American male poets
- American writers of Vietnamese descent
- Academics of the University of East Anglia
- Pew Fellows in the Arts
- Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
- People from Ho Chi Minh City
- 1963 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male writers