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Nam Le (Vietnamese: Lê Nam) (born 1978) is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his book The Boat, a collection of short stories.

Nam Le (Vietnamese: Lê Nam) (born 1978) 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.

Nam Le digs beneath the surface and unfailingly sees the bundles as human in these accomplished stories about the terrible . But The Boat, an extraordinary collection of seven short stories by Nam Le, is truly that kind of book.

Nam Le digs beneath the surface and unfailingly sees the bundles as human in these accomplished stories about the terrible reverberations of violence. Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor. It is uncommon that a writer’s first book can be described as masterful, especially when the author is not yet 30 years old.

I was delighted to find this book of well-written short stories by Aussie author Nam Le, who arrived here by boat as a refugee from Vietnam when he was only one. These eight stories are all quite different from each other and Le speaks in many voices from different countries, all believable: Vietnamese, Colombian, Japanese, Iranian, Australian. I think my favourite is the young Aussie lad in the fishing family with the sick mum. Football, a girl, bullies, a jetty, a struggling dad and younger 5★.

In his first book of stories, Nam Le asserts his right to roam beyond the Vietnamese thing. The Boat is transparently a product of the increasingly formalized milieu in which American writers train - a well-wrought collection that, in its acute self-consciousness, trails a telltale whiff of the industry that is its initial concern, of the heap of fellowship and job applications the fictional Le needs to draft and submit when he’s interrupted by his father.

It's hard not to sense autobiography in Nam Le's opener, in which a struggling Vietnamese-born creative writing student receives advice from a friend

It's hard not to sense autobiography in Nam Le's opener, in which a struggling Vietnamese-born creative writing student receives advice from a friend. You could totally exploit the Vietnamese thing," he exclaims, "but instead you choose to write about lesbian vampires, and Colombian assassins, and Hiroshima orphans, and New York painters with haemorrhoids. They end suddenly, leaving your heart in the lurch and your head wondering whether it's in Iran or Australia or the barrios of Columbia. And he is not afraid to explore the "Vietnamese thing", examining the effect of war on families, and setting his claustrophobic final tale upon a seething, starving boat of migrants.

A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le’s The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world

A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le’s The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world. Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the death of his much-younger lover; or a young refugee fleeing Vietnam, crammed in the ship's hold with 200 others, the result is unexpectedly moving and powerful.

Nam Le writes with verve and a chameleon-like versatility, rendering varied characters with pitch-perfect credibility in a startling range of situations. A particular relief in that he steers clear of the typical cast of immigrant stories that Asian writers tend to veer towards - such a welcome breath of fresh air and definitely a writer to watch.

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