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Valeria Luiselli

Mexican writer · Mexico · Writers · Born 1983 · age 43

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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.

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2022European Prize for LiteratureAward2020Guggenheim FellowshipAward2019MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1983Born16 August 1983

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Awards

European Prize for Literature2022
Guggenheim Fellowship2020
MacArthur Fellows Program2019

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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 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 was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Luiselli's 2019 novel, Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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Mexico
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Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
living
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Born 1983 · age 43

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