Valeria Luiselli was born on August 16,1983 and is a Mexican author living in the United States.
19 Facts About Valeria Luiselli
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Valeria Luiselli 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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Valeria 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.
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Valeria Luiselli's 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.
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In 2014, Valeria Luiselli was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award.
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Valeria Luiselli eventually studied comparative literature at Columbia University, where she completed a Ph.
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Valeria Luiselli teaches literature and creative writing at Bard College, collaborates as a writer with a number of art galleries, and has worked as a librettist for the New York City Ballet.
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Valeria Luiselli served as a juror for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2016.
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Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City, and moved to Madison, Wisconsin, with her family at the age of two.
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Valeria Luiselli attended UWC Mahindra College in India and then returned to Mexico to attend university.
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Valeria Luiselli enrolled in the National Autonomous University of Mexico to study philosophy, and then lived in Spain and France.
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Valeria Luiselli first came to New York to study contemporary dance and worked as an intern at the United Nations, and later studied a PhD in Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Valeria Luiselli started a literacy program for girls in a detention center in upstate New York that focuses on creative writing.
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Valeria Luiselli is passionate about researching and writing about mass incarceration in the United States, with a focus on detention centers.
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Valeria Luiselli is working on a performance piece with the poet Natalie Diaz related to mass incarceration and violence against women.
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Valeria Luiselli has been interested in writing about and working to improve the plight of asylum-seeking children from Latin America, a theme that is present in her 2020 novel, Lost Children Archive.
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Valeria Luiselli began writing Lost Children Archive in 2014 "as a loudspeaker for all of [her] political rage" after having served as a court translator for children from Latin America involved in the migration crisis.
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The workers read the chapters out loud and provided comments on them, which Valeria Luiselli recorded and took into consideration as she wrote the next chapter.
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Valeria Luiselli said she used it as a loudspeaker for all of her political rage regarding the migration crisis.