3— 7 December 2012

Short story "Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" broadcast on Irish National Radio

24 October 2012

The Boat released in Croatia

23 April 2012

Short story "Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" released as a Penguin Shorts e-Book

4 January 2012

The Boat paperback edition released in France, Belgium, Switzerland and French Canada

4 November 2011

The Boat released in Vietnam

24 May 2011

The Boat released in large print and braille editions

March 2011

Short story "Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" anthologised in Best Australian Stories: A 10 Year Collection

January 2011

The Boat selected as the inaugural book for the University of Melbourne's Summer Reading Program 2011

27 — 31 December 2010

Short story "The Boat" broadcast on Swedish National Radio

November 2010

Short story "The Yarra" anthologised in The Best Australian Stories 2010 (ed. Cate Kennedy)

25 October 2010

Short story "The Boat" anthologised in The Penguin Book of the Ocean (ed. James Bradley)

September 2010

The Boat released in Spanish-speaking countries

1 July 2010

Short story "Cartagena" anthologised in Wordlines (ed. Hilary McPhee)

11 May 2010

The Boat wins the Kathleen Mitchell Award

9 May 2010

The Boat reviewed by Christian Kjelstrup in Aftenposten (Norway)

May 2010

The Boat reaches #4 on Sweden's fiction bestseller list

26 April 2010

The Boat wins PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story (joint winner with Edward P. Jones)

16 April 2010

The Boat shortlisted for the Premio Vallombrosa von Rezzori for "best contemporary literary work in the field of foreign [non-Italian] literature"

1 April 2010

Short story "Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" anthologised in The Perfume River: Writing About Vietnam (ed. Catherine Cole)

1 April 2010

The Boat reviewed by Emilie Grangeray in Le Monde

20 March 2010

The Boat reaches #1 on Bokus (Sweden) fiction bestseller list

March 2010

The Boat reaches #2 on Dagens Nyheter's Top 10 Critics' List

March 2010

The Boat reviewed in Dagens Nyheter, Sveriges Radio (audio here), Svenska Dagbladet, Sydsvenskan, Kristianstadsbladet, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Norrköpings Tidningar, Nya Wermlands-Tidningen, Tidningen Kulturen, Arbetarbladet, Smålandsposten, and Norrländska Socialdemokraten, among other Swedish venues

16 March 2010

The Boat released in Sweden

31 January 2010

The Boat makes the French Edistat (foreign literature) bestseller list

January 2010

The Boat reviewed in Le Figaro, Libération, Télérama, L'Express, Le Point, Rolling Stone, Le Soir (Belgium), Le Temps (Switzerland), La Croix, and other French language venues

29 January 2010

The Boat released in Japan

4 January 2010

The Boat released in France, Belgium, Switzerland and French Canada

31 December 2009

The Boat selected by Deidre Wengen as one of phillyBurbs.com's Top Five Books of the Decade

29 December 2009

The Boat selected as one of L Magazine's Best Books of the Decade

10 November 2009

The Boat released in Israel

November 2009

Short story "The Yarra" anthologised in Brothers & Sisters (ed. Charlotte Wood)

28 November 2009

The Boat selected by Simon Schama as one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2009

11 November 2009

The Boat wins the Melbourne Prize for Literature (Best Writing Award)

2 November 2009

The Boat wins Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award in Fiction

19 October 2009

The Boat released in Finland

October 2009

Short story "The Yarra" published in the Asia Literary Review and excerpted in The Age

28 September 2009

Short story "Halflead Bay" anthologised in The Australian Long Story (ed. Mandy Sayer)

11 September 2009

The Boat released in Korea

8 September 2009

The Boat wins the Australian Short Story Collection — Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards

18 August 2009

The Boat paperback edition released in North America

23 June 2009

Nam Le wins Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer of the Year

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)

3 May 2009

Nam Le interviewed by Richard Ford for PEN World Voices Festival 2009

23 April 2009

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

2 March 2009

The Boat B-format edition released in Australia & New Zealand

7 January 2009

The Boat selected as The Vancouver Courier's #1 Book of 2008

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 Chicago Tribune's Top 4 Fiction Books 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 selected as a U.S. 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

8 September 2008

Short story "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

Short story "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

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 Editor's Choice

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)

1 May 2008

The Boat selected as a June 2008 Book Sense Pick

April — May 2008

Short story "Tehran Calling" published at FiveChapters.com