Nam Le

Nam Le is the author of 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, On David Malouf, and The Boat. His work, which appears in modern classics series, has received major awards in Australia, America and Europe, and is widely translated, anthologised, adapted and taught. His poetry has been published in Paris Review, Poetry, Granta, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, BOMB, The Monthly, HEAT, and elsewhere.

Articles by Nam Le:

16 February 202419 February 2024 · Poetry

Two poems from 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

Nam Le

But think about the children, super cute children, mute children, with uncommonly big eyes, children with hard eyes, eyes that have seen what no child’s eyes should see, children naked as the day wearing big smiles and no smiles, preternaturally wise, with mooned-out tummies and cleft palates and cataracts, deformities and birth defects ...

Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 · Judges' report

Victoria University Short Story Prize: judges’ report

Natalie Kon-yu, Nam Le and Jacinda Woodhead

Submissions for the 2015 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize were assessed blind. More than five hundred entries were equally divided between the judges, who returned after several weeks with a longlist of twenty-eight stories. This longlist was then reduced, over a number of rereads and discussions, to a shortlist of twelve diverse and ambitious stories, and finally to two runners-up and a winning story.