Uruguayan-American · b. 1975
Caro De Robertis is a Uruguayan-American novelist, translator, and oral historian born in 1975 in England to Uruguayan parents; their father, an embryologist, was completing postdoctoral research there at the time. Raised across England, Switzerland, and California, De Robertis settled in Oakland and now teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. Their fiction includes The Invisible Mountain (2009), an international bestseller translated into seventeen languages, along with Perla, The Gods of Tango, Cantoras, The President and the Frog, and The Palace of Eros. De Robertis edited the anthology Radical Hope (2017) and has won the Stonewall Book Award twice, along with the John Dos Passos Prize for Fiction. Their 2025 book, So Many Stars, gathers oral histories from trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and Two-Spirit elders of color. De Robertis identifies as queer and genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns.