This just in from Publishers Weekly: "Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le is the second winner of the biannual Dylan Thomas Book Prize, which awards £60,000 ($100,000) to a writer under 30 and working in English." (The full report is here.) Le won for his book The Boat, whose seven short stories travel the globe almost as much as Le himself has. I mention all this because Nam Le gave a reading in our store this past June. I can't promise you that everyone who reads here will be named "the best young writer in the English-speaking world," to quote the folks at the Dylan Thomas Prize, but you never know. Check out our events page, and see who's coming this month.--David E
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