via Zoom
Organizer:
Isabel Jimenez, David Spirgi
Lost Children Archive: A Discussion with Valeria Luiselli
Please email isabel.jimenez@clutterunibas.ch to register for the event.
Valeria Luiselli is invited to the University of Basel within the context of the course Contemporary Mexican-American Literature. Led by David Spirgi and Isabel Jimenez, the course covers Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (2017).
Short Biography
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa, and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; and, most recently, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. She is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant”; the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award; and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and the Kirkus Prize on three occasions. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in New York City.
Education: B.A., National Autonomous University of Mexico (2007), PhD, Columbia University (2015)
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