Valeria Luiselli has won the Rathbones Folio Prize for her “singular, teeming, extraordinary” novel Lost Children Archive. The Mexican author won £30,000 in addition to the award for her third novel, which tells the fictional story of a family holiday and follows children trying to cross the US border from her homeland.
Luiselli saw off competition from Laura Cumming’s On Chapel Sands, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School and Zadie Smith’s Grand Union to scoop the award.
Paul Farley, the chair of judges, said: “In a year of brilliant books, Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli is our unanimous choice as winner of the 2020 Rathbones Folio Prize — and we’re all thrilled and delighted to be able to celebrate this genuinely original and bravura
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