Valeria Luiselli on Writing Through the Pandemic

April 6, 2020 | 1 book mentioned

After her latest novel, Lost Children Archive, won the British Rathbone Folio Prize, Valeria Luiselli spoke to Claudia Torrens at AP News about the importance of artists continuing to write during this uncertain time. “I think it is my duty, and the duty of every writer,” she says, “whether is a science-fiction writer, a journalist, a poet, each at their own pace and within their own capacities, to document this moment.”

is a writer and illustrator. She is the author of two illustrated books, Last Night's Reading (Penguin Books, 2015) and Sanpaku (Archaia 2018).