Our Path Forward Presents: Valeria Luiselli (Main/Virtual) In-Person
In the latest installment of the "Our Path Forward" Lecture Series, the Cambridge Public Library is thrilled to welcome Valeria Luiselli, the award-winning author of Lost Children Archive, Tell Me How It Ends, and other books.
In a time when our already-vulnerable immigrant communities are coming under increased scrutiny and threats to their security, Luiselli is someone who is willing to platform voices from within those very communities.
A passionate and refreshingly original thinker and writer, Valeria Luiselli has been doing this difficult work for a number of years. In 2019, she received a MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called "Genius Grant") for "challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others."
In Tell Me How It Ends, which recounts Luiselli's experience as an interpreter for newly-arrived migrant children, she writes, "being aware of what is happening in our era and choosing to do nothing about it has become unacceptable."
Note: Spanish and Haitian Creole translation will be available over Zoom.
- Date:
- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Lecture Hall
- Branches:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Author Event City Event Feature Presentation/Lecture
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends (An Essay in Forty Questions). Her most recent novel, Lost Children Archive was an international critical and commercial success. It was a New York Times 10 Best Books of 2019, won the Rathbone Folio Prize 2020, the Dublin Award 2021, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Booker Prize 2019 among others. Her work is published in more than thirty languages. She is a professor at Bard College.
This lecture is cosponsored by The Cambridge Public Library Foundation.