Veranstaltung:

18 Apr 2025
17:00  - 18:00

Online via Zoom

Öffentliche Veranstaltung, Gastvorlesung / Vortrag

Lost Children Archive: A Discussion with Valeria Luiselli

With Valeria Luiselli (Bard College)

Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli is invited to the University of Basel within the context of BA Seminar, "Contemporary Mexican-American Literature". Said seminar led by David Spirgi and Isabel Jimenez covers Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (2017).

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 TimesGranta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in New York City.

Please email isabel.jimenez@clutterunibas.ch to register for the event.


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