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Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Australia. He has
received the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America
Award, and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown, and Phillips Exeter Academy. His fiction
has appeared in venues including Best
New American Voices, Best Australian Stories, Best American Nonrequired
Reading, Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space and Harvard Review. He
divides his time between Australia and the United States. |
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The Boat (Canongate, 2008)
2008
Library Journal Best Books of the Year;
Short story from this collection, Cartagena,
won a Pushcart Prize
Reviewed by
Elaine Chiew
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