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Currently, Monique Truong is 55 years, 11 months and 10 days old. Monique Truong will celebrate 56rd birthday on a Monday 13th of May 2024. Below we countdown to Monique Truong upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Monique Truong |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 55 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 13, 1968 (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) |
| Birthday | May 13 |
| Town/City | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Nationality | Vietnam |
Monique Truong’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Monique Truong was born in the Year of the Monkey. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Monkey thrive on having fun. They’re energetic, upbeat, and good at listening but lack self-control. They like being active and stimulated and enjoy pleasing self before pleasing others. They’re heart-breakers, not good at long-term relationships, morals are weak. Compatible with Rat or Dragon.
Vietnamese Writer who is known especially for her 2003 work, The Book of Salt. She published a second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, in 2010.
She graduated from Yale University in 1990 with a degree in English.
She won the 2004 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for The Book of Salt.
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.
She and Robert Stern both graduated from Yale University.
