Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. In 2014 she was honored as part of the National Book Foundation's list of "5 under 35." Her debut novel, Faces in the Crowd , earned rave reviews and won the Los Angeles Times ' 2015 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Luiselli's fiction and essays have been translated into many languages, and her work has appeared in such publications as Granta , McSweeney's, and the N ew York Times

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. In 2014 she was honored as part of the National Book Foundation's list of "5 under 35." Her debut novel, Faces in the Crowd , earned rave reviews and won the Los Angeles Times ' 2015 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Luiselli's fiction and essays have been translated into many languages, and her work has appeared in such publications as Granta , McSweeney's, and the N ew York Times See less