Valeria Luiselli

Finalist, 2026 National Book Awards
Honoree, 2014 5 Under 35

Valeria Luiselli is an acclaimed writer of fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks, the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, the Folio Prize, and the International Dublin Literary Award. Learn more >

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ISBN 9798217208319
Knopf / Penguin Random House
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Faces in the Crowd

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ISBN 9781847085061
Coffee House Press

As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss. More about this book >

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    Selected by Karen Tei Yamashita >

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Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli is an acclaimed writer of fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks, the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, the Folio Prize, and the International Dublin Literary Award. Her work has been translated into more than 30 languages. She teaches at Harvard University and Bard College. She lives in New York City.

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