Mexican-born novelist and essayist Valeria Luiselli has won the £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize for her novel Lost Children Archive.
She is the first woman to win the prize since its inception in 2013.
Luiselli was inspired to write Lost Children Archive by her work with young migrants on the Mexico-US border. The autobiographical novel brings together a family road trip from New York to the southern border with stories of Mexican children trying to cross into the US.
About Rathbones Folio prize
The Folio Prize is given by the London based Folio Academy. The Rathbones Folio Prize is open to all works of literature written in English and published in the UK
