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Valeria Luiselli

Biography

Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection SIDEWALKS; the novels FACES IN THE CROWD and THE STORY OF MY TEETH; and, most recently, TELL ME HOW IT ENDS: An Essay in Forty Questions. She is the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and an American Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. She lives in New York City.

Valeria Luiselli

Books by Valeria Luiselli

by Valeria Luiselli - Fiction

In LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE, a family's road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border.