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. She is also well known for her translational work, frequently translating Spanish pieces.

Carolina de Robertis is the child of two Uruguayan parents. She moved throughout her childhood, being born in England, later moving to Switzerland, until finally ending up in Los Angeles, California. 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.

de Robertis released her first book, The Invisible Mountain, in 2009. The novel was an international best-seller, being translated into 17 languages, 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.

Novels

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

Translation

• "Trans: A Love Story" by Gabriela Wiener (2007)
• Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra (2008)
• "I Never Went to Blanes" by Diego Trelles Paz (2010)
• The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero (2012)
• "Tripych" by Raquel Lubartowski (2017)

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 Works

• "The Askers" for the Virginia Quarterly Review (2009)
• "On the Brink of Words" for the 580 Split (2009)
• "For Orlando" for the San Francisco Chronicle (2016)
• "The Tango Police" for CNET's Technically Literate Series (2017)
• Radical Hope (2017)

• Terrific Read from O, The Oprah Magazine (2009)
• Rhegium Julii Prize (2010)
• 2012 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
• San Francisco Chronicle, the Best Books of 2015
• Stonewall Book Award (2016)