Biography
Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Australia. He has received the Dylan Thomas Prize, the (U.S.) National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the University of East Anglia.

His fiction has appeared in venues including Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space, Conjunctions, One Story, NPR's Selected Shorts, Prospect Magazine, and the Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best New American Voices, Best Australian Stories, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. He is the fiction editor of the Harvard Review

Prizes and Awards

2008 Dylan Thomas Prize

2008 National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" Award,

Pushcart Prize

Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award