23 June 2009

Nam Le wins Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer of the Year (and The Boat shortlisted for Book of the Year and Literary Fiction Book of the Year categories)

22 June 2009

The Boat shortlisted for Nielsen BookData Australia Booksellers Choice Award

June 2009

Nam Le interviewed by Charles D'Ambrosio for BOMB Magazine

28 May 2009

The Boat released in Italy

18 May 2009

The Boat wins NSW Premier's Literary Award for Book of the Year

18 May 2009

The Boat wins UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing

16 May 2009

Nam Le wins Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Award (joint winner with Kevin Rabalais, Alice Nelson & Steve Toltz)

23 April 2009

The Boat wins Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (joint winner with Louise Erdrich)

18 February 2009

The Boat shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (South East Asia, Best First Book category)

4 February 2009

The Boat selected as the fiction book of 2008 by The Australian Literary Review

January 2009

The Boat shortlisted for The Story Prize

28 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The Miami Herald's Top 10 Books of 2008

28 December 2008

The Boat selected by Anita Sethi as one of The Independent's Best Books of 2008

28 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The San Diego Union-Tribune's Best Books of 2008

28 December 2008

The Boat selected by Andrew Porter as one of The San Antonio Express-News's Best Books of 2008

December 2008

The Boat selected as Barnes & Noble's #4 Best Fiction Debut of 2008

27 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The Herald Sun's Top 10 Books of 2008

26 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The National Post (Canada)'s Top 10 Books of 2008

19 December 2008

The Boat selected as The Oregonian's #1 Book of 2008

13 December 2008

The Boat selected by Peter Carey and Fiona Capp as one of The Age's Best Books of 2008

Dec 2008 / Jan 2009

The Boat selected as the fiction debut of the year by The Australian Book Review

12 December 2008

The Boat selected as North Shore News (Vancouver)'s #1 Book of 2008

8 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2008

7 December 2008

The Boat selected as New York Magazine's Best Debut of 2008

7 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The Los Angeles Times's Best Books of 2008

6 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Books of 2008

6 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The Australian's Best Books of 2008

5 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The Rocky Mountain News's Best Books of 2008

3 December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The Christian Science Monitor's Best Books of 2008

December 2008

The Boat selected as one of The Monthly's Best Books for Summer 2008-2009

28 November 2008

Nam Le interviewed by Megan Walsh (and his story, "Cartagena", excerpted) in The Times

26 November 2008

The Boat selected as a 2008 New York Times Notable Book

17 November 2008

Nam Le wins a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Fiction Selection (nominated by Mary Gaitskill)

10 November 2008

The Boat wins the Dylan Thomas Prize

3 November 2008

The Boat selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2008

November 2008

The Boat selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of 2008 (Editors' Picks)

November 2008

The Boat selected as one of Bookmarks Magazine's Best Books of 2008

November 2008

"Meeting Elise" published in Best Australian Stories 2008 (edited by Delia Falconer)

15 October 2008

The Boat released in Holland

10 October 2008

The Boat reviewed by Hirsh Sawhney for the Times Literary Supplement

3 October 2008

Nam Le interviewed by Kurt Andersen for Studio 360

October 2008

The Boat released in Germany

24 September 2008

Nam Le selected as a U.S. National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Fiction Selection for 2008 (scroll down for video)

8 September 2008

"Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" published in Best New American Voices 2009 (edited by Mary Gaitskill)

September 2008

Nam Le selected by Richard Meier for Esquire's Minimalist/Maximalist feature (#13 in slideshow)

September 2008

"Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" published in Prospect Magazine (UK)

August 2008

The Boat reviewed by Peter Craven in HEAT Magazine

25 August 2008

The Boat is #1 bestselling book at Melbourne Writers Festival

24 August 2008

Nam Le in international satellite exchange with Salman Rushdie at Edinburgh International Book Festival

11 August 2008

Nam Le interviewed by Edan Lepucki for The Millions

7 August 2008

The Boat released in U.K.

July 2008

Nam Le in conversation with Cate Kennedy at SlowTV

26 July 2008

Nam Le profiled by Michael Harry in The Adelaide Advertiser

18 July 2008

Nam Le interviewed by Edward Champion on The Bat Segundo Show

16 July 2008

The Boat reviewed by Jonathan Penner in The Washington Post

13 July 2008

The Boat makes the bestseller lists of The Townsville Bulletin and The Newcastle Herald

July / August 2008

Nam Le selected by Poets & Writers magazine as one of "Summer's 5 debut stars"

July 2008

The Boat reviewed by Louise Swinn in the Australian Book Review

6 July 2008

The Boat reviewed by Antoine Wilson in The Los Angeles Times

6 July 2008

The Boat reviewed by Eleanor Limprecht in The Sydney Sun-Herald

5 July 2008

The Boat makes the (Independents) bestseller lists of The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Brisbane Courier Mail

5 July 2008

The Boat reviewed by David Jays in The Globe And Mail

2 July 2008

The Boat reviewed by Barry Oakley in the Australian Literary Review

28 June 2008

The Boat makes The Sydney Morning Herald (Australian fiction) bestseller list

21 June 2008

The Boat reaches #1 on the Readings (Melbourne) bestseller list

20 June 2008

The Boat makes The Star Tribune (Minnesota) bestseller list

20 June 2008

The Boat reviewed by Andrew Riemer in The Sydney Morning Herald

18 June 2008

Nam Le interviewed on The Leonard Lopate Show (NY) and The Book Show (Radio National Australia)

15 June 2008

The Boat selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice pick

15 June 2008

The Boat reviewed by Ian McGillis in The Montreal Gazette

14 June 2008

The Boat reviewed by James Ley in The Age

13 June 2008

The Boat selected as a New Hampshire Public Radio Summer Read 2008

11 June 2008

Nam Le profiled by Steven Winn for the San Francisco Chronicle

June 2008

The Boat selected as a Borders Original Voices pick

8 June 2008

The Boat excerpted in The New York Times

8 June 2008

The Boat reviewed by Hari Kunzru in The New York Times Sunday Book Review

7 June 2008

The Boat reviewed by Tim Johnston in The Australian

2 June 2008

The Boat released in Australia / New Zealand

1 June 2008

Nam Le interviewed by Swati Pandey for the Los Angeles Times

31 May 2008

Nam Le profiled by Michael Williams for The Age

30 May 2008

The Boat makes Northern California's bestseller list

24 May 2008

Nam Le interviewed by Guy Raz for NPR's "All Things Considered" (National weekend edition)

18 - 25 May 2008

The Boat makes the San Francisco Chronicle (Bay area) bestseller list

18 May 2008

The Boat makes the bestseller lists of the Northern Californian Independent Booksellers Association, the New England Independent Booksellers Association and the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association

15 May 2008

The Boat reviewed by Michael McGaha in The San Francisco Chronicle

14 May 2008

Nam Le profiled by Patricia Cohen in The New York Times

13 May 2008

The Boat reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times

13 May 2008

The Boat released in U.S.A. / Canada

12 May 2008

Titlepage.tv episode (with Daniel Menaker, Aleksandar Hemon, Rabih Alameddine and Simon Winchester) released

Spring 2008

Short story "The Boat" published in Conjunctions (50th anniversary issue)

3 May 2008

The Boat longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

1 May 2008

The Boat selected as a June 2008 Book Sense Pick

April - May 2008

Short story "Tehran Calling" published at FiveChapters.com