Nam Le

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About The Author

Nam Le’s poetry has been published in The Monthly, The Paris Review, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Bomb, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Lana Turner and Tin House. His short story collection The Boat received numerous major international awards, including the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. The Boat has been republished as a modern classic and is widely translated, anthologised and taught. Nam Le lives in Melbourne.

Books by Nam Le

Book of Hours
By Emily Floyd, Nam Le and Chloe Hooper
What does it mean to be alive now?How should we best spend our days?Book of Hours is a stunning timepiece crafted by some of Australia's foremost writers and artists.It is a meditation on the light and dark of a single day and a provocation on the urgencies of our times. How much time do we have ...
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36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
By Nam Le
Selected as one of the New York Public Library’s Best New Poetry Books

Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry

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