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Valeria Luiselli

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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 SidewalksFaces in the Crowd, andThe Story of My Teeth, all translated by Christina MacSweeny; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (2017); and Lost Children Archive (2020). She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of the Dublin Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, the Carnegie Medal, and an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker 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 Yorker, the New York TimesGranta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She teaches at Bard College and is a visiting professor at Harvard University.

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