Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican-American author. 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 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.
Luiselli's 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Best Translated Book Award, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and was awarded the Premio Metropolis Azul. Her book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
In 2014, Luiselli was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award. In 2019, she won a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2020, the Vilcek Foundation awarded her a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature and she won the Folio Prize.
Luiselli's 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Best Translated Book Award, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and was awarded the Premio Metropolis Azul. Her book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
In 2014, Luiselli was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award. In 2019, she won a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2020, the Vilcek Foundation awarded her a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature and she won the Folio Prize.
