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Nam Le(Vietnamese: Lê Nam) (born 1978) is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his bookThe Boat, a collection of short stories. His stories have been published in many places includingBest Australian Stories 2007,Best New American Voices,Zoetrope: All-Story,A Public SpaceandOne Story. In 2008 he was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation.

Nam Le came to Australia from Vietnam with his parents, when he was less than a year old, as a boat refugee. He attended Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated with a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons). His Arts thesis supervisor was the Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe. He worked as a corporate lawyer and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2003/2004.