‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library
The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project
May 2021
Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin literary award for Lost Children Archive
Novel, which weaves together the stories of Mexican migrants with those of a US family on a road trip south, was picked for the prize by a Barcelona library
April 2021
Rathbones Folio prize paid £30,000 to scammers posing as the winner
‘Sophisticated cyber-criminals’ took Valeria Luiselli’s winnings, though a similar fraud attempt on the Baillie Gifford prize was foiled
November 2020
Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authors
List by pseudonymous author of beloved Neapolitan novels includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney and several Italian classics
June 2020
Books interview
Valeria Luiselli: 'I look at Mexico from afar with pain and love'
The author of Lost Children Archive tells of her work in US youth immigration courts and her difficulty in choosing whether to write in English or Spanish
March 2020
Valeria Luiselli wins £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize for third novel
Mexican author awarded prize for her acclaimed novel Lost Children Archive in a digital-only ceremony streamed on Twitter
January 2020
Faces in the Crowd review – Valeria Luiselli adaptation is strikingly imaginative
Jimena Larraguivel stars in a clever and evocative but confusing version of Luiselli’s multi-stranded novel about a woman who feels unseen
December 2019
Reading group
Lost Children Archive is daring, but not always convincing
Valeria Luiselli’s novel uses modernist experimentation in a way that is sometimes brilliant, sometimes exasperating
Reading group
How Lost Children Archive estranges the idea of aliens
Valeria Luiselli’s portrait of a family on a road trip from New York to Arizona points up how little separates them from the migrants heading the other way
Reading group
Reading group: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli is our book for December
Telling the stories of child migrants on the US border, this novel is one of 2019’s most acclaimed books. Will we admire it too?
September 2019
$625,000 'genius grants' go to Ocean Vuong and six other writers
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best books of the 21st century
August 2019
Books that made me
Valeria Luiselli: ‘Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition changed my life’
The Mexican-born writer on the pleasures and perils of philosophy, underlining Arendt and how Nietzsche stopped her becoming a Buddhist
July 2019
Not read them yet? A cheat's guide to the 2019 Booker prize longlist
Handmaid's Tale sequel leads 'exacting' 2019 Booker prize longlist
March 2019
Book of the day
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli review – border crossings
Valeria Luiselli: 'Children chase after life, even if it ends up killing them'
Non-binary trans author nominated for Women's prize for fiction
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli – review
January 2019
The Guardian Books podcast
Should we stop working? And the books of 2019 – books podcast
On this week’s show, we take a look ahead at the books coming out this year, and speak to Josh Cohen about why we should all slack off a little at work
