Author
Valeria Luiselli
Birth Date
August 16, 1983
(42 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican novelist, essayist, and translator known for her innovative narrative style and engagement with social and political issues. Born in 1983 in Mexico City, she writes in both Spanish and English, though some of her most acclaimed works, like Lost Children Archive and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, were originally written in English.
Her writing often explores themes of migration, displacement, memory, and language, blending fiction, nonfiction, and experimental structures. Luiselli has received numerous international awards, including the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, and is celebrated for bringing attention to humanitarian issues through literature while innovating with form and narrative voice.
Her writing often explores themes of migration, displacement, memory, and language, blending fiction, nonfiction, and experimental structures. Luiselli has received numerous international awards, including the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, and is celebrated for bringing attention to humanitarian issues through literature while innovating with form and narrative voice.
Books
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Valeria Luiselli's novel opens the morning a mother and her teenage daughter arrive in Sicily, during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles, and sudden tempests. They’ve landed near the...
Tell Me How It Ends 2017
The book is a short nonfiction work based on Luiselli’s experiences volunteering as a translator for undocumented Latin American children in U.S. immigration courts. It’s structured around the forty...
Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin...