Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction,  her work is publsihed in more than thirty languages. She is the author of Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, Tell Me How It Ends (An Essay in Forty Questions) and Lost Children Archive,  an international critical and commercial success. Lost Children Archive was a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2019, won the Rathbone Folio Prize 2020, the Dublin Award 2021, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Booker Prize 2019 among others. In 2019 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for “challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others.” Her new novel, Beginning, Middle, End was published in 2026.