Carolina de Robertis

Carolina de Robertis is an Uruguayan-American novelist and translator whose fiction explores LGBTQ+ history, Latin American politics, and the lives of marginalized communities. Born in Uruguay, she grew up in England, Switzerland, and the United States, and is fluent in English and Spanish. Her novels include The Invisible Mountain (2009), Perla (2012), The Gods of Tango (2015), which won the Stonewall Book Award for Literature, and Cantoras (2019), which won the Stonewall Book Award for Literature and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Cantoras follows five queer women in Uruguay during the dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s. The President and the Frog (2021) was shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. De Robertis is also an editor, having edited the anthologies Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times (2017) and Oye: An Anthology of Latin Fiction in Translation. She teaches in the MFA program at San Francisco State University and has been awarded a Stonewall Honor, the Hedge Brook Residency, the Djerassi Fellowship, and other recognitions. She lives in Oakland, California with her family. Her work is notable for its lush prose style, its recovery of queer histories, and its imaginative engagement with South American political memory.