Linh Dinh (Vietnamese: , born

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

Saigon , population_density_km2 = 4,292 , population_density_metro_km2 = 697.2 , population_demonym = Saigonese , blank_name = GRP (Nominal) , blank_info = 2019 , blank1_name = – Total , blank1_ ...

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

) is a

Vietnamese-American Vietnamese Americans ( vi, Người Mỹ gốc Việt, lit=Viet-origin American people) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese ...

poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He was a 1993 Pew Fellow. He writes a column for ''

The Unz Review Ronald Keeva Unz (; born September 20, 1961) is an American technology entrepreneur, political activist, writer, and publisher. A former businessman, Unz became a multi-millionaire in Silicon Valley before entering politics. He unsuccessfully r ...

''.

Biography

Dinh came to the US in 1975, lived in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

and in 2018 is moving back to Vietnam. In 2005, he was a David Wong fellow at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

, in

Norwich, England Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

. He spent 2002–2003 in Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers and the town of

Certaldo Certaldo is a town and ''comune'' of Tuscany, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, in the middle of Valdelsa. It is about southwest of the Florence Duomo. It is 50 minutes by rail and 35 minutes by car southwest of Florence, and it is 40 m ...

. He was a visiting faculty member at

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. From 2015–2016, Dinh was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

's Institute for American Studies in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

, Germany.

Career

He is the author of two collections of stories, ''Fake House'' and ''Blood and Soap'', and five books of poems: ''All Around What Empties Out'', ''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 ''The Best American Poetry 2007'', a volume in ''The Best American Poetry series'', was edited by poet Heather McHugh, guest editor, who made the final selections, and David Lehman, the general editor for the series. This book is the 20th volume i ...

'', and ''Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present''. The

Village Voice ''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the ''Voice'' began as a platform for the creat ...

picked his ''Blood and Soap'' as one of the best books of 2004. Translated into Italian by Giovanni Giri, it is published in Italy as ''Elvis Phong è Morto''.

Reviews

Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of B ...

'' reviews Linh Dinh'
''American Tatts''
He has translated many international poets into Vietnamese, and many Vietnamese poets and fiction writers into English, including Nguyen Quoc Chanh, Tran Vang Sao, Van Cam Hai, and Nguyen Huy Thiep.

Works

Poetry

*''Some Kind of Cheese Orgy'', Chax Press, 2009, *''Jam Alerts'', Chax Press, 2007, *''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, *''All Around What Empties Out'', Subpress, 2003, *''Drunkard Boxing'', Singing Horse Press, 1998,

Fiction

* Translated into Japanese (Hayakawa Publishing, 2008) and Italian (Spartaco, 2006), as ''Elvis Phong è Morto!''. * *''Love Like Hate'', Seven Stories Press, 2010,

Translations

*''Night, Fish and Charlie Parker'', a bilingual edition of Phan Nhiên Hạo's poetry (Tupelo, 2006)

Editor

*''Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam'' (Seven Stories Press 1996) *''Three Vietnamese Poets'', translations (Tinfish, 2001) *''

Night, Again ''Night, Again'' is an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese fiction, edited by Linh Dinh. Published in 1996 by Seven Stories Press, then reissued in 2006 with two new stories, ''Night, Again'' features key authors emerging from the liberalization ...

: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam'', anthology, Seven Stories, 1996,

Anthologies

* *

References

External links

AsianAmericanPoetry.Com Poet Profile On Linh Dinh"Linh Dinh"
''PennSound''

''Jacket 27'', Susan M. Schultz

Marianne Villanueva, ''Pacific Rim Review of Books''
"Linh Dinh with Matthew Sharpe"
''The Brooklyn Rail'', May 2004 *
Casino Time
essay by Dinh on the economic and social distinctions that are circumvented (or not) by the terms "recession" and "depression"
Postcards from the End of America
This is Dinh's own photo blog that was formerly called "State of the Union", but now renamed. Through a combination of essays (both photographic and words), Dinh has been "tracking our deteriorating socialscape". {{DEFAULTSORT:Dinh, Linh 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