Linh Dinh
{{short description|American writer and photographer}}
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Linh Dinh (Vietnamese: {{Lang|vi|Đinh Linh}}, born 1963, Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He posts travel essays and social commentary regularly in his newsletter Postcards from the End.{{cite web |title=Linh Dinh |url=https://vietnamlit.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linh_Dinh |website=Vietnam Literature Project (VNLP) |accessdate=1 March 2020}}
He was a 1993 Pew Fellow.{{Cite web |url=http://www.oneviet.com/archives/2007/04/inh_linh_thi_vn_nh_mnh.php |title=Đinh Linh: Thi Văn Định Mệnh |access-date=2012-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091013111838/http://www.oneviet.com/archives/2007/04/inh_linh_thi_vn_nh_mnh.php |archive-date=2009-10-13 |url-status=dead }}
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.{{cite news |title=Poet is latest in literature series |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20061025-9999-lz1mi25poet.html |work=SignOnSanDiego.co |publisher=Union-Tribune Publishing Co. |date=October 25, 2006 |accessdate=2008-09-18 }}{{cite web |title=Go Where You Don't Belong; An Interview with Author Linh Dinh |url=http://www.neonpajamas.com/blog/linh-dinh-interview |website=Neonpajamas |accessdate=5 June 2018 |date=2018-05-20}}
In 2005, he was a David Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England.{{cite web|author=Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership |url=http://apwriters.org/general/david-t-k-wong-fellowship-announced/ |title=2009/10 David T.K. Wong Fellowship |publisher=Apwriters.org |accessdate=2010-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019020411/http://apwriters.org/general/david-t-k-wong-fellowship-announced/ |archivedate=2010-10-19 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.asianamericanpoetry.com/show_poem.php?poem=Linh_Dinhxaefhsj562 |title=Linh Dinh-Eating Fried Chicken |publisher=Asianamericanpoetry.com |accessdate=2010-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707174843/http://www.asianamericanpoetry.com/show_poem.php?poem=Linh_Dinhxaefhsj562 |archivedate=2011-07-07 }}
He spent 2002–2003 in Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers and the town of Certaldo.{{cite web|author=TinFish Press |url=http://www.tinfishpress.com/dinh.html |title=All Around What Empties Out - by Linh Dinh |publisher=Tinfishpress.com |accessdate=2010-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717061219/http://www.tinfishpress.com/dinh.html |archivedate=2011-07-17 }}{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uz3AR1DWa9UC&q=Linh+Dinh++International+Parliament+of+Writers&pg=PP11| chapter=Acknowledgements| title=Blood and soap: stories| author=Linh Dinh| publisher=Seven Stories Press| year= 2004| isbn= 978-1-58322-642-1 }}
He was a visiting faculty member at University of Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=http://writing.upenn.edu/cw/faculty.php |title=Faculty |publisher=Writing.upenn.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-10-09}}
From 2015–2016, Dinh was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.{{cite web|author=American Studies Leipzig |url=http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/blogs/91/next-picador-professor-linh-dinh |title=Next Picador Professor Linh Dinh |date=September 10, 2015 |accessdate=2015-09-25}}
Career
He is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House{{cite news |title=Fake House |url=http://www.citypaper.net/articles/011101/ae.books.bq.shtml |work=Philadelphia City Paper |date=January 11–18, 2001 |accessdate=2008-09-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416133218/http://www.citypaper.net/articles/011101/ae.books.bq.shtml |archivedate=2009-04-16 }} and Blood and Soap, and five books of poems: All Around What Empties Out,{{cite web |title=Excerpts from A L L _ A R O U N D _ T H A T _ E M P T I E S _ O U T |url=http://www.tinfishpress.com/dinh.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717061219/http://www.tinfishpress.com/dinh.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 July 2011 |website=TinFish |publisher=TinFish Press |accessdate=5 June 2018}} 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.{{cite news |title=Our 27 favorite books of the year |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0449%2Cvlsfaves%2C59016%2C10.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906182423/http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0449%2Cvlsfaves%2C59016%2C10.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-09-06 |accessdate=5 June 2018 |work=Village Voice |date=2008-01-22}} 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, {{ISBN|978-0-925904-78-2}}
- Jam Alerts, Chax Press, 2007, {{ISBN|9780925904683}}
- 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, {{ISBN|978-0-925904-55-3}}
- All Around What Empties Out, Subpress, 2003, {{ISBN|978-1-930068-19-3}}
- Drunkard Boxing, Singing Horse Press, 1998, {{ISBN|978-0-935162-18-9}}
=Fiction=
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uz3AR1DWa9UC&q=Linh+Dinh| title=Blood and Soap, Stories| publisher=Seven Stories Press| year= 2004| isbn=978-1-58322-642-1}} Translated into Japanese (Hayakawa Publishing, 2008) and Italian (Spartaco, 2006), as Elvis Phong è Morto!.
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5OzFmAeN-xcC&q=Linh+Dinh| title=Fake House| publisher=Seven Stories Press| year= 2000| isbn=978-1-58322-039-9 }}
- Love Like Hate, Seven Stories Press, 2010, {{ISBN|978-1-58322-909-5}}
=Translations=
- Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, a bilingual edition of Phan Nhiên Hạo's poetry (Tupelo, 2006){{cite web|url-status=dead|url=https://www.tupelopress.org/hao.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512214953/http://www.tupelopress.org/hao.shtml|archive-date=2008-05-12|title=Phan Nhien Hao|author=Night, Fish, and Charlie Parker}}
=Editor=
- Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 1996){{cite news |title=Tales of the World's 'Unchosen' Misfits |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61780319.html?dids=61780319:61780319&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+02%2C+2000&author=MERLE+RUBIN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Book+Review%3B+Tales+of+the+World%27s+%27Unchosen%27+Misfits%3B+FAKE+HOUSE+And+Other+Stories+by+Linh+Dinh%3B+Seven+Stories+Press+%2423.95%2C+192+pages&pqatl=google |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 2, 2000 |accessdate=2008-09-18 | first=Merle | last=Rubin}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
- Three Vietnamese Poets, translations (Tinfish, 2001){{cite web|url=http://tinfishpress.com/free_stuff_pdfs/vietnamese.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717062144/http://tinfishpress.com/free_stuff_pdfs/vietnamese.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-17 }}
- Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam, anthology, Seven Stories, 1996, {{ISBN|978-1-888363-02-9}}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/boldwordscentury0000unse| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/boldwordscentury0000unse/page/127 127]| quote=Linh Dinh.| chapter=The Dead| title=Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing|editor=Rajini Srikanth |editor2=Esther Yae Iwanaga| publisher=Rutgers University Press| year= 2001| isbn=0-8135-2966-2 }}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tr4SK8MgQj8C&q=Linh+Dinh&pg=PA25| chapter=Continuous Bullets over Flattened Earth; A Super-Clean Country| title=The Best American Poetry 2007|editor=Heather McHugh |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Simon and Schuster| year= 2007| isbn=978-0-7432-9973-2 }}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707173543/http://www.asianamericanpoetry.com/poet_show.php?poet_id=Linh_Dinh4ga66coprq AsianAmericanPoetry.Com Poet Profile On Linh Dinh]
- [http://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/ Postcards from the End of America] Dinh's photo blog
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Category:20th-century American poets
Category:American writers of Vietnamese descent
Category:Academics of the University of East Anglia
Category:Pew Fellows in the Arts
Category:Vietnamese emigrants to the United States