Bard’s Valeria Luiselli Wins Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise
Valeria Luiselli, Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature, has won a 2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. The prizes encourage and support emerging to midcareer immigrant artists and scientists who have demonstrated exceptional achievements early in their careers. The Creative Promise Prizes are awarded annually in biomedical science and in a rotating category of the arts—this year’s was literature. Three winners are selected in each category through an application process juried by panels of experts in each field. The Creative Promise Prizewinners each receive a $50,000 cash award and are honored at an awards ceremony in New York City. Luiselli was recognized for her “intelligent fiction and nonfiction” that interrogates the U.S. immigration system.
Post Date: 04-08-2020
Post Date: 04-08-2020