Nam Le

Nam Le (he/him) was born in Vietnam. He is the author of the poetry collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem (Knopf, 2024), the book-length essay On David Malouf (Black Inc, 2019), and the short story collection The Boat (Knopf, 2008). His writing also encompasses criticism and screenwriting.

Le’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Granta, BOMB, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Asymptote, Lana Turner, and elsewhere. His work has won numerous honors internationally, including a PEN/Malamud Award, a Dylan Thomas Prize, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and an Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award, as well as fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the University of East Anglia, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Sidney Myer Foundation, among others.

Le was the fiction editor of the Harvard Review from 2007 to 2013. He earned a BA and LLB with honors from the University of Melbourne and an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.