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Nam Le, Fiction Editor of the Harvard Review, at the Literary Festival
The fiction editor of the Harvard Review, Nam Le, was born in Vietnam and was raised in Australia. His book, The Boat (2008), is hailed as one of the most spectacular debut works of fiction in recent years, winning the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize (2008).
Mr. Le has been awarded fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of East Anglia. There are two opportunities to hear Nam Le at the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival on March 15.
10:00 am at The Pawn Living Room:
Travel & Leisure Southeast Asia Presents Fine Fiction -- We often think of writers sitting in solitary hovels, eking out a living. Nam Le and Miguel Syjuco discuss their paths to success. What makes an award-winning book? How much writing and struggle is there in the process? In conversation with Stephen McCarty. Coffee and snacks in the lovely ambiance of The Pawn.
3:00 pm at The Fringe Theatre:
Asia Literary Review Presents The Year of the Short Story -- Award-winning authors Nam Le, Rana Dasgupta and Xujun Eberlein discuss the art of the short story. The Boat’s seven stories have characters as varied as a Japanese third-grader, an ageing painter with hemorrhoids and an American woman visiting Iran for the first time. In Tokyo Cancelled thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell stories that add up to a broad exploration of 21st-century forms of life. Apologies Forthcoming is a collection centred around China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. In conversation with Chris Wood, editor of Asia Literary Review.
For more information, please visit the festival web site: http://www.festival.org.hk/2009a/programme.php?cat=participants&match=Le,%20Nam
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