Nam Le
Forfatter af The Boat
Om forfatteren
Nam Le is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his book The Boat which is a collection of short stories. His stories have been published in several places including Best Australian Stories 2007, Best New American Voices, Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space and One vis mere Story. He has won several awards including Pushcart Prize, Prime Minister's Literary award, Anisfield -Wolf Book Award and PEN/Malamud Award. He will be featured at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2015 program. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Photo © 2007 Joanne Chan
Værker af Nam Le
Boat, The 2 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1978
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Viet Nam (birth)
Australia - Uddannelse
- University of Melbourne, Australia (BA, LLB)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) - Erhverv
- short-story writer
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attorney - Organisationer
- Harvard Review
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" (2008)
- Agent
- Eric Simonoff, William Morris Endeavor
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The first story is probably the highlight of the collection, and is the sort of piece that would (or should) be taught in Asian American Studies classes as it grapples directly with identity and the work of writing. (But it also means it's the most consciously self-reflexive of the stories, and if I sniff it a little, I imagine the slightly off-putting whiff of Writing Workshop Prompt about it, but it's also the point of the story.) In contrast, my favorite piece was the one I thought I'd like the least: "Meeting Elise", which humanizes an otherwise repellent artist faced with his mortality.… (mere)