TS Eliot prize goes to Ocean Vuong's 'compellingly assured' debut collection

Before announcing Vuong as the winner at a ceremony at the Wallace Collection in London on Monday evening, chair of judges Bill Herbert called Night Sky With Exit Wounds "a compellingly assured debut, the definitive arrival of a significant voice".

"There is an incredible power in the story of this collection," said Herbert. "There is a mystery at the heart of the book about generational karma, this migrant figure coming to terms with his relationship with his past, his relationship with his father and his relationship with his sexuality. All of that is borne out in some quite extraordinary imagery. The view of the world from this book is quite stunning."