Valeria Luiselli

Nationality

Mexican

Description

Valeria Luiselli (born August 16, 1983) is an award-winning Mexican author living in the United States.She is the author of the book of essays Sidewalks, and the internationally acclaimed novel Faces in the Crowd, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her 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 Prize for Best Fiction, and the Azul Prize in Canada. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages, and her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney’s and The New Yorker. Her most recent book, "Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions", was described by the Texas Observer as "the First Must-Read Book of the Trump Era", and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.In 2014 Luiselli was the recipient of the National Book Foundation "5 under 35" award.

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Gender

Female

The best books of all time by Valeria Luiselli

  1. 295 . Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli

    Part treatise, part memoir, part call to action, Tell Me How It Ends inspires not through a stiff stance of authority, but with the curiosity and humility Luiselli has long since established.

    - Google