Carolina De Robertis, author portrait
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Carolina De Robertis

CARO DE ROBERTIS is the author of five novels, including Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; it was also selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Their work has been translated into seventeen languages and they have received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize, and numerous other honors. An author of Uruguayan origins, De Robertis teaches at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California, with their wife and two children.

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The President and the Frog
Cantoras (en Espanol)
Cantoras
Radical Hope
The Gods of Tango
Perla
The Invisible Mountain

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The President and the Frog
Cantoras (en Espanol)
Cantoras
Radical Hope
The Gods of Tango
Perla
The Invisible Mountain

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