Carolina de Robertis

Carolina de Robertis is a Uruguayan-American author and teacher of creative writing at San Francisco State University. She's an award-winning author of four novels and the editor of an award-winning anthology, Radical Hope (2017), which include essays by such writers as Junot Diaz and Jane Smiley.[1] She is also well known for her translational work, frequently translating Spanish pieces.

Carolina de Robertis
de Robertis at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born1975
England
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationBA - University of California Los Angeles
MFA - Mills College
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Notable worksThe Invisible Mountain (2010)
Perla (2013)
The Gods of Tango (2015)
Radical Hope (2017)
Notable awardsRhegium Julii Debut Prize (2010)
Stonewall Book Award (2016)
SpousePamela Harris
Website
carolinaderobertis.com

Early life and career

Carolina De Robertis is the child of two Uruguayan parents. She moved throughout her childhood following the scientific career of her father Edward De Robertis. She was born in England, later moving to Basel (Switzerland), until finally ending up in Los Angeles, California.[2][3] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. She also received a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Mills College in 2007.[4]

De Robertis released her first book, The Invisible Mountain, in 2009. The novel was an international best-seller, being translated into 17 languages,[5] including Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Hebrew, and Chinese. It won best book for the San Francisco Chronicle, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Booklist. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award, an International Latino Book Award, and the VCU Cabell First Book Award.

She worked as a rape counselor and was very active in the Bay Area's LGBTQ+ community for ten years in her 20s.[6]

Works

Novels
  • The Invisible Mountain (2009)
  • Perla (2012)
  • The Gods of Tango (2015)
  • Cantoras (2019)

Translation

Essays
  • "42 Poorly Kept Secrets About Montevideo" for The Indiana Review (2006)
  • "Translating a Pablo Neruda Mystery" for Publishers Weekly (2012)
  • "We Need the Real, Racist Atticus Finch" for the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review (2015)
  • "Why We Must Listen to Women" for the Easy Bay Express (2017)

Other

Honors and awards

References
  1. "Coming in May – RADICAL HOPE: LETTERS OF LOVE AND DISSENT IN DANGEROUS TIMES | Carolina De Robertis". www.carolinaderobertis.com. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  2. Lee, Nicole. "Carolina de Robertis talks about dancing through history with her novel 'The Gods of Tango'". latimes.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  3. BookBrowse. "Carolina De Robertis author biography". BookBrowse.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. "Graduate Program English | MFA & MA Alumnae/i | Mills College". inside.mills.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  5. "Carolina De Robertis - Bay Area Book Festival". Bay Area Book Festival. Archived from the original on 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  6. Leon, Aya de (2016-02-01). "Novelist Carolina De Robertis wins a Stonewall Award for her historical treatment of queer and transgender identity in THE GODS OF TANGO". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  7. "Perla (Vintage Contemporaries) | IndieBound.org". www.indiebound.org. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  8. "Carolina De Robertis". NEA. 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
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