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Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli is an acclaimed writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her work is published in more than thirty languages. Her novel, Lost Children Archive, was an international commercial and critical success. It won the Rathbone Folio Prize 2020, the Dublin Award 2021, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, among others. In 2019 she was awarded a MacArthur Genuis Grant. She lives in New York and teaches at Bard College and Harvard University. 

Articles by Valeria Luiselli

One Book Leads to Another: An Interview with Valeria Luiselli by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The Pulitzer Prize finalist writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras speaks to the prolific Mexican author Valeria Luiselli about the 'gorgeous nesting dolls' of Luiselli's many works of fiction and nonfiction, particularly her latest book, Beginning Middle End (Fourth Estate, 2026). Their conversation bubbles and flows like lava from a volcano as they discuss the liminal space between languages, road trips, borderlands, mythologies, memory, and how we organise and structure narratives and time.
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