Nam Le

Nam Le is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his book The Boat, a collection of short stories. His stories have been published in many places including Best Australian Stories 2007, Best New American Voices, Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space and One Story. In 2008 he was named a "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2024 he published his first poetry collection with Knopf, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem.