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Carolina De Robertis
Award-Winning Author Known for "The Invisible Mountain"
A writer of Uruguayan origins, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the forthcoming novel "The Palace of Eros," as well as "The President and the Frog," a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; "Cantoras," winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice; "The Gods of Tango," winner of a Stonewall Book Award; "Perla;" and the international bestseller "The Invisible Mountain," which received Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize. Their books have been translated into seventeen languages and have received numerous other honors, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.
De Robertis is also an award-winning translator of Latin American and Spanish literature, and editor of the anthology "Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times." In 2017, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people, organizations, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.” In 2022, they were an inaugural Baldwin-Emerson Fellow, gathering oral histories of queer and trans BIPOC elders in collaboration with Baldwin for the Arts and the Center for Oral History at Columbia University. De Robertis is an associate professor at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California with their two children.
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