Author Valeria Luiselli will give a talk on her book Lost Children Archive as the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies's annual Betty Jean Craige Lecture, co-sponsored by the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts. The event is also presented as part of the Willson Center’s 2022 Global Georgia Initiative public events series.

Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. Her fiction and nonfiction books include Sidewalks, The Story of My Teeth, and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of DUBLIN Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City.

Advance registration for this event, which will be presented live via Zoom webinar, is required and available here.