词条 | Valeria Luiselli |
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|name = Valeria Luiselli |image = Hayfestival-2016-Valeria-Luiselli-stage.jpg |caption = Luiselli at the 2016 Hay Festival |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|8|16}} |birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico |occupation = Author |nationality = Mexican |period = 2013– |website = }}Valeria Luiselli (born August 16, 1983) is an award-winning Mexican author living in the United States.[1] 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 Book Prize for Best Fiction, and the Premio Metropolis Azul 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",[2] and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.[3] In 2014 Luiselli was the recipient of the National Book Foundation "5 under 35" award. CareerAfter earning a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Luiselli moved to New York City to dance. She eventually studied Comparative Literature at Columbia University.[4] and completed a PhD. She teaches literature and creative writing at Hofstra University, collaborates as a writer with a number of art galleries and has worked as a librettist for the New York City Ballet.[5] She served as a juror for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2016.[6] Several of Luiselli's books are borne out of real-world collaborations. The Story of My Teeth (2015) was first written in serial for workers in a Jumex juice factory in Mexico as part of a commission from Galería Jumex.[1] Her nonfiction work Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (2017) is based on her experiences volunteering as an interpreter for young Central American migrants seeking legal status in the United States.[7] The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism in 2017.[8] Her work with asylum-seeking children from Latin America also informs the central theme in her 2019 novel Lost Children Archive.[8] Personal lifeLuiselli was born in Mexico City, and moved to Madison, WI at the age of 2.[8] She has also lived in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa, India, Spain, and France. She lives in New York City. Awards
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References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/valeria-luiselli-the-novelist-all-your-smart-friends-are-talking-about|title=Valeria Luiselli: the Novelist All Your Smart Friends Are Talking About - Broadly|website=Broadly.vice.com|accessdate=14 December 2016}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2017/4/18/mexican_writer_valeria_luiselli_on_child|title=Mexican Writer Valeria Luiselli on Child Refugees & Rethinking the Language Around Immigration|website=Democracynow.org|accessdate=17 May 2017}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://coffeehousepress.org/products/tell-me-how-it-ends|title=Tell Me How It Ends|website=Coffee House Press|access-date=2018-03-10}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/spanish/people/gradstudents/luiselli.html|title=Columbia University - LAIC - Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures|website=Columbia.edu|accessdate=14 December 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://dailygazette.com/article/2010/07/03/0703_nycbwheeldon?print|title=NYCB Preview: Ginastera’s music inspired Wheeldon to create ‘Estancia’|website=The Daily Gazette|accessdate=27 August 2017}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.neustadtprize.org/the-neustadt-prize/neustadt-jurors-1970-present/|title=Neustadt Jurors (1970 - present)|website=The Neustadt Prize|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/521791352/tell-me-how-it-ends-offers-a-moving-humane-portrait-of-child-migrants|title='Tell Me How It Ends' Offers A Moving, Humane Portrait Of Child Migrants|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en}} 8. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/arts/valeria-luiselli-lost-children-archive.html|title=Valeria Luiselli, at Home in Two Worlds|last=León|first=Concepción de|date=2019-02-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-25|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/foundation-news/2018-american-book-awards-announcement/ |title=2018 American Book Awards|publisher=The Before Columbus Foundation |date= 13 August 2018}} Further reading
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9 : 1983 births|Living people|Mexican women novelists|Writers from Mexico City|National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni|21st-century Mexican writers|21st-century women writers|21st-century Mexican women writers|American Book Award winners |
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