Novelist Monique Truong

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Monique Truong

Living place: Ho Chi Minh

Birthday: 13-5-1968 (56 years old)

Population of Vietnam 1968: 40,86 millions

Global rank: #44589

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Who is Novelist Monique Truong?
Vietnamese writer known especially for her 2003 work, The Book of Salt. She published a second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, in 2010.
She won the 2004 W. Bingham PEN/Robert Prize for The Book of Salt.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She graduated from Yale University in 1990 with a degree in English.

Family life info

She was born in Saigon, Vietnam. When she was six years old, she left Vietnam as a war refugee and settled in Houston, Texas. She later lived in New York City.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Monique Truong?
She and Robert Stern both graduated from Yale University.

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When was Novelist Monique Truong born?
Monique Truong birthday 13-5-1968 (at the age of 56).
Where is Novelist Monique Truong's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Monique Truong was born in Ho Chi Minh, of Vietnam. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Monique Truong's global rank is 44589 and whose rank is 309 in list of famous Novelist. Population of Vietnam in 1968 is about 40,86 millions persons.
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Events in 1968 and 13-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Monique Truong

  • North Korea seizes US Navy ship Pueblo; holds 83 on board as spies (Jan. 23).
  • North Vietnamese launch the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the Vietnam War (Jan.-Feb.).
  • American soldiers massacre 347 civilians at My Lai (March 16). Background: Vietnam War
  • Czechoslovakia is invaded by Russians and Warsaw Pact forces to crush liberal regime (Aug. 20).

Birthday Monique Truong (13-5) in history

  • Day 13-5 year 1568: Queen Mary of the Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to Northern England.
  • Day 13-5 year 1846: The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.
  • Day 13-5 year 1938: Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans's jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.
  • Day 13-5 year 1940: Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
  • Day 13-5 year 1973: Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.
  • Day 13-5 year 1981: Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.
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