Le Thi Diem Thuy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Le Thi Diem Thuy
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jan 12, 1972(1972-01-12)
Age	52
Birthplace	Phan Thiết
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Le Thi Diem Thuy Biography

Le Thi Diem Thuy is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on January 12, 1972 in Phan Thiết, United States. Lê was born in the South Vietnamese village of Phan Thiết on January 12, 1972, during the Vietnam War.

On her return to Hampshire College, she wrote poems, prose, and pieces of dialog that would form the foundation for her senior thesis and first solo performance work Mua He Do Lua/Red Fiery Summer. After graduation, she traveled the United States from 1995 to 1997 performing her play Red Fiery Summer in community spaces and formal theaters.

In 1998, while working on her book, Lê returned to Vietnam for the first time in 20 years, with her mother. Her trip made her appreciate how much her parents had suffered when they settled in the United States. “It was profoundly sad for me,” she says. “The most powerful thing was this [extended] family. I must have been related to 200 people there. I realized how isolated my parents must have felt, the extent of what they had lost and had never been able to regain.” Her mother returned to Vietnam permanently in 2001 after she was diagnosed with cancer. She is buried in her home village of Phan Thiết. Le’s father moved back to Vietnam in 2003.

Le was cited by The New York Times as one of its “Writers On The Verge” shortly before her novel, The Gangster We Are All Looking For, was published by Knopf (2003), to glowing reviews.

She moved to Massachusetts in 1990 to enroll in Hampshire College, where she concentrated on cultural studies and post-colonial literature. She chose the school because of its individualized, multidisciplinary curriculum and her desire to get as far away from San Diego as possible. In 1993, Lê traveled to Paris to research French colonial postcards from the early 1900s–images of Vietnamese people taken by French photographers. Some of the images she collected would later appear in her performance work. It was in France that she solidified her identity as an American, with English as her preferred language. “Being in France and not hearing English every day,” she says, “helped clarify how I hear English and carry it inside me.”

Le Thi Diem Thuy Net Worth

Le Thi Diem Thuy is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Le Thi Diem Thuy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lê Thị Diễm Thúy (Phan Thiết 12 January 1972; pronounced lay tee yim twee) is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist, and performer. Her pen name is lowercase: lê thị diễm thúy.

In 1978, Lê left her homeland alongside her father in a small fishing boat. They were picked up by an American naval ship and placed in a refugee camp in Singapore. She eventually resettled in Southern California with her father. They lived in Linda Vista, San Diego, in decaying 1940s–’50s Navy housing, which they shared with fellow Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian “boat people,” immigrants displaced by war. Lê’s mother and sister joined them two years later, via a camp in Malaysia. Two of Lê’s siblings drowned during her childhood: her eldest brother drowned in the ocean in Vietnam when he was six, while a sister drowned in a Malaysian refugee camp. Lê adopted the name of her deceased sister after her father mistakenly reported her name when they were rescued at sea. She has four surviving siblings, two of whom were born in America.

In 1996, she was commissioned to write her second solo performance work, the bodies between us, which was subsequently produced by New WORLD Theater. In the same year, she published a prose piece entitled “The Gangster We Are All Looking For” in the Massachusetts Review. It was rerun in Harper’s Magazine later that year, and caught the attention of literary agent Nicole Aragi, who urged Lê to expand the work into a novel. The unfinished book was picked up in 1999 by publisher Alfred A. Knopf.

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Le Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Le Thi Diem Thuy celebrates birthday on January 12 of every year.