Le wins PM’s literary prize

(Monday 2 November 2009)

Nam Le has been awarded the $100,000 Prime Minister's Literary Award for his book of short stories, The Boat.

Le, although unable to attend the ceremony, was honoured by the award for his much praised debut collection.

“It's an anodyne thing to say but maybe it needs to be said, and said again and again: that books matter,” Le said.

“They are the truest means of telling and showing us to ourselves, that they do a strange, unaccountable, irreplaceable work that the loose, baggy monsters of film, TV, and internet cannot.”

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