Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli
Luiselli at the 2016 Hay Festival
Luiselli at the 2016 Hay Festival
Born (1983-08-16) August 16, 1983 (age 40)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationAuthor
NationalityMexican
EducationNational Autonomous University of Mexico (BA)
Columbia University (PhD)
Period2013–present
Website
www.valerialuiselli.com

Valeria Luiselli (born August 16, 1983) is a Mexican-American author.[1] She is the author of the book of essays Sidewalks and the novel Faces in the Crowd, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Luiselli's 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Best Translated Book Award, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Fiction, and she was awarded the Premio Metropolis Azul in Montreal, Quebec. Luiselli's books have been translated into more than 20 languages, with her work appearing in publications including, The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New Yorker. Her book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions[2] was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.[3] Luiselli's 2019 novel, Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.[4][5][6]

In 2014, Luiselli was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award. In 2019, she won a MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a MacArthur "Genius Grant".[7] In 2020, the Vilcek Foundation awarded her a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature[8] and the Folio Prize.[9]

Luiselli is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.

  1. ^ Oyler, Lauren (September 15, 2015). "Valeria Luiselli: The Novelist All Your Smart Friends Are Talking About". Broadly.vice.com. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  2. ^ "Mexican Writer Valeria Luiselli on Child Refugees & Rethinking the Language Around Immigration". Democracynow.org. April 18, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  3. ^ "Tell Me How It Ends". Coffee House Press. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  4. ^ "Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction | Awards & Grants". www.ala.org. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  5. ^ SZALUSKY (January 26, 2020). "'Lost Children Archive,' 'Midnight in Chernobyl,' receive 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction". News and Press Center. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  6. ^ "2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winners Announced". American Libraries Magazine. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  7. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (September 25, 2019). "MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners for 2019: The Full List". The New York Times. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  8. ^ "Valeria Luiselli". Vilcek Foundation. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  9. ^ "Rathbones Folio Prize". March 23, 2020. Retrieved March 23, 2020.