Nam Le

Nam Le’s work encompasses fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screen.

Le’s debut poetry collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem was published in March 2024 in Australia, the U.S. and U.K. Poems from it were published in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, BOMB, Lana Turner, HEAT and elsewhere.

Le’s work has been translated into over fourteen languages and has received major awards in America, Europe and Australia, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. Le’s work has appeared in modern classics series, and is widely anthologized and taught.