瓦莱丽亚•路易塞利

瓦莱丽亚·路易塞利（Valeria Luiselli、1983年8月16日—）是一位墨西哥裔美国作家。她是散文集《人行道》和小说《人群中的脸》的作者，该小说荣获《洛杉矶时报》艺术塞登鲍姆首部小说奖。

路易塞利2015年的小说《我牙齿的故事》入围美国国家书评人协会奖和最佳翻译图书奖，获得洛杉矶时报图书奖最佳小说奖、魁北克省蒙特利尔市蓝色大都会奖。路易塞利的书籍已被翻译成 20 多种语言，她的作品出现在《纽约时报》、《Granta》、《McSweeney's》和《纽约客》等出版物上。她的书《告诉我它是如何结束的：40 个问题的一篇文章》入围柯克斯非小说奖和国家书评人协会批评奖。2019年的小说《迷失的儿童档案》荣获卡内基杰出小说奖。

Valeria Luiselli (born August 16, 1983) is a Mexican-American author. She 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. 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.

Luiselli's 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Best Translated Book Award, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and was awarded the Premio Metropolis Azul. Her 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 for Criticism. Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

In 2014, Luiselli was the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award. In 2019, she won a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2020, the Vilcek Foundation awarded her a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature and she won the Folio Prize.

Early life

Luiselli was born in Mexico City, and moved to Madison, Wisconsin, with her family at the age of two. Her father's work in NGOs and later as a diplomat moved the family to Costa Rica, South Korea, and South Africa. After her parents separated, she moved back to Mexico City with her mother at the age of 16. Luiselli attended UWC Mahindra College in India before returning to Mexico. She completed a BA in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and then lived in Spain and France. At age 25, she moved to New York City to pursue a master's degree in Latin American studies and a PhD in comparative literature at Columbia University.

Career

After 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, where she completed a Ph.D. She 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. She served as a juror for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2016.

Several of Luiselli's books are based on real-world experiences. 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. 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. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism in 2017. Her work with asylum-seeking children from Latin America also informs the central theme in her 2019 novel Lost Children Archive.

Political involvement

Luiselli started a literacy program for girls in a detention center in upstate New York that focuses on creative writing. Luiselli is passionate about researching and writing about mass incarceration in the United States, with a focus on detention centers. She is working on a performance piece with the poet Natalie Diaz related to mass incarceration and violence against women.