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HomeStage Series: "An Evening with Valeria Luiselli" (Online)
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Valeria Luiselli
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Public: $10.00 Virginia Tech Students: Free

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Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech continues their 2021 Spring HomeStage Series with a virtual event "An Evening with Valeria Luiselli" on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.

Exploring the experience of dislocation as a common theme across many projects, celebrated Mexican-born author and 2019 MacArthur Fellowship recipient Valeria Luiselli’s recent works synthesize her experiences as a court interpreter for unaccompanied child migrants caught in the labyrinth of U.S. immigration policy. These experiences, her attempts to document them, and the ethical dilemmas these efforts pose figure prominently in her latest novel. Lost Children Archive, named a New York Times "Top 10 Book of the Year" for 2019, is a fictionalized account of her own family’s road trip from New York to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, with stories of the unfolding Central American migration crisis nested into the narrative.

Streamed live from the Luiselli’s home, this event features a reading from the author; an interview moderated by Carmen Giménez Smith, Virginia Tech professor of English and 2019 Guggenheim fellow; and a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Born in Mexico City and growing up in South Korea, South Africa, and India, Valeria Luiselli writes with dry humor and deftly controlled prose in both Spanish and English, often wrestling with the complexity of translation and draws from an unusually broad range of Latin American, American, and European literary traditions.

Luiselli forges new forms of writing that interweave multiple voices, those of other writers, readers, translators, and the children she interviews, and poses profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and pass them on to subsequent generations.

She is the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, the Carnegie Medal, and an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. 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 Times, Granta, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Luiselli is a writer in residence at Bard College and lives in New York City.

Link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2157571/valeria-luiselli/

Tickets are $10.00 for the general public and free for Virginia Tech students.

A recording will remain available to ticket holders for seven days following the live event.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/valeria-luiselli.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or call 540-231-5300.