Valeria Luiselli is the winner of the 2021 Dublin Literary Award! Her novel Lost Children Archive triumphed over an extraordinarily strong shortlist.

Interweaving works of literature, music, maps, photographs, and other documents with multiple narrative voices, Luiselli has composed a masterpiece that is at once an exhilarating, lyrical road novel and an unsparing meditation on dislocation, remembering, and storytelling.

Join Valeria in conversation with Colm Tóibín, himself a previous winner of the award, for this exclusive live event to close our festival, where you can put your questions to the author.

The DUBLIN Literary Award is the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English, with the winner receiving €100,000. It is open to novels written in any language and by authors of any nationality, provided the book has been published in English or English translation. Uniquely, books are nominated by libraries in major cities throughout the world. It is sponsored solely by Dublin City Council, as is ILFDublin.

Join us to raise a glass and to put your questions to the winner at this very special one-off event!