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Nam Le (born 1978) is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his book ''The Boat'', a collection of short stories. His stories have been published in many places including ''Best Australian Stories 2007'', ''Best New American Voices'', ''Zoetrope: All-Story'', ''A Public Space'' and ''One Story''. ==Life and early career== Nam Le came to Australia from Vietnam with his parents, when he was less than a year old, as a boat refugee.〔Metherell, Gia (2008) "Vietnamese refugee wins top English literary award", ''The Canberra Times'', 11 November 2008〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spotlight On: Nam Le ) 〕 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.〔 Le decided to turn to writing, and in 2004 attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the United States where he completed a Masters in Creative Writing. He became fiction editor at the ''Harvard Review''.〔 His first short story was published in ''Zoetrope'' in 2006. Nam Le also held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 2006, and at the Phillips Exeter Academy, in 2007.〔〔 In an interview on Australian ABC radio, he said he turned from law to writing due to his love of reading: "I loved reading, and if you asked me why I decided to become a writer, that's the answer right there, because I was a reader and I was just so enthralled and thrilled by the stuff that I'd read that I just thought; what could be better? How could you possibly better spend your time than trying to recreate that feeling for other people". In the same interview he said that his first writing was poetry. He returned to Australia in 2008, but is moving to Great Britain to take up a writing fellowship at the University of East Anglia.〔 When asked about his source of inspiration, Nam Le said in 2008 that "I’d say I’m most inspired by my parents for the choices and sacrifices they’ve made. It still boggles me".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nam Le」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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