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Valeria Luiselli

Mexico (b.1983)

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novels and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeneys. Some of her recent projects include a ballet libretto for the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center in 2010; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City.

Awards: Dublin (2021), Writers' Prize (2020), LA Times (2015), NBA (2014) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Faces in the Crowd (2012)
   The Story of My Teeth (2015)
   Lost Children Archive (2019)

Series contributed to

O. Henry Prize Stories
The Best Short Stories 2022 (2022)

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Books containing stories by Valeria Luiselli

Lunatics, Lovers and Poets (2016)
Twelve Stories After Cervantes and Shakespeare
edited by
Daniel Hahn and Margarita Valencia

Tales of Two Cities (2015)
The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York
edited by
John Freeman

Awards

	2021 Dublin Literary Award : Lost Children Archive
	2020 The Writers' Prize for Fiction : Lost Children Archive
	2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : The Story of My Teeth
	2014 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 : Faces in the Crowd
	2014 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction : Faces in the Crowd

Award nominations

	2020 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : Lost Children Archive
	2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Lost Children Archive
	2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : Lost Children Archive
	2019 Booker Prize (longlist) : Lost Children Archive
	2017 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Story of My Teeth
	2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Story of My Teeth
	2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : The Story of My Teeth

Valeria Luiselli recommends

Still Born (2022)
Guadalupe Nettel
"Nettel is one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature. ... I envy how naturally she makes use of language; her resistance to ornamentation and artifice; and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature."

The Love Parade (2022)
(Carnival trilogy , book 1)
Sergio Pitol
"Certainly the strangest, most unfathomable and eccentric. . . . His voice reverberates beyond the margins of his books."

Monkey Boy (2021)
Francisco Goldman
"From the painful intimate violence in a suburban New England home, to racial cruelty among high school teenagers, to the US government's political and military interventionism in Latin America, Goldman's sweeping gaze runs through multiple circuits of America's violence, showing us how deeply connected they in fact are. With the exact balance of outrage and hope, Monkey Boy takes us on an eye-opening journey, full of tenderness and horror, through the often-ignored layers of this country's history. A powerful, necessary book."

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