Earlier this year, a library in Barcelona submitted a nomination for its favourite book of the year: Mexican author Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive. On Thursday, thanks to Biblioteca Vila De Gràcia, Luiselli was named winner of the world’s richest prize for a novel published in English, the €100,000 (£86,000) Dublin literary award. “It’s a beautiful, relatively small library in Barcelona who nominated me,” said Luiselli. “It felt like an encouragement, like someone was saying, ‘Carry on, do your work, this is what you’re meant to be doing. Just focus and continue.’”In a speech broadcast at the winner announcement, Luiselli described Lost Children Archive as “a novel about the process of making stories, of threading voices and ideas together in an attempt to better understand the world around us.

Source: The Guardian May 20, 2021 13:10 UTC