Nov 10, 2026, 5:00 pm
McCosh Hall, Room 50
Free and open to the public

More information here: https://lectures.princeton.edu/lectures/2026/valeria-luiselli

Valeria Luiselli is an acclaimed Mexican author and essayist whose work spans fiction, nonfiction, and soundscapes. Born in Mexico City and raised in South Korea, South Africa, and India, she is the author of the essay collections Tell Me How It Ends and Sidewalks; the sonic essay Echoes From the Borderlands; and the novels Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, Lost Children Archive, and Beginning Middle End.

Luiselli is a recipient of the 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and has been honored with the Dublin Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, the Carnegie Medal, and an American Book Award. Her work has also been recognized with nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Foundation, and the Booker Prize. Additional honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Vilcek Prize, and a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund.

Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Her ongoing soundscape and oral history project, Echoes From the Borderlands, has been presented at venues including DIA Chelsea and the Harvard ArtLab.

This event is presented by Princeton University Public Lectures.