Nam Le’s work encompasses fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screen. His poetry has been published in the Paris Review, Poetry, Granta, the American Poetry Review, Bomb, Conjunctions, Boston Review, The Monthly and other places. He has received major awards in Australia, America and Europe including the PEN/Malamud Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Until recently, he was the fiction editor of the Harvard Review. His short story collection The Boat has been republished as a modern classic and is widely anthologised, translated and taught. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.