Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive
Mexican author Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive. The novel, the first the author has written in English, follows an artist couple on a road trip from New York to Arizona with their two children in the heat of summer. As their parentsâ relationship frays, the children try to make sense of both their familyâs crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of children trying to cross the border into the US but getting detained or lost in the desert along the way. The winner was announced today online by Dublinâ...