Caro De Robertis
Uruguayan-American author and educator
Caro De Robertis (born 1975) is an Uruguayan–American author and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. They are the author of six novels and a nonfiction book, and the editor of an award-winning anthology, Radical Hope (2017), which include essays by such writers as Junot Díaz and Jane Smiley. They are also well known for their translation work, frequently translating Spanish pieces.
Early life
Caro De Robertis was born in England in 1975 to Uruguayan parents. Their father, Edward De Robertis, is a noted embryologist. At the time of their birth, Edward was studying postdoctoral training at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology under Sir John Gurdon after completing his undergraduate and graduate studies in Uruguay and Argentina, whereas their grandfather, Eduardo De Robertis, was an Argentine physician and biologist. De Robertis is of paternal Italian descent, with their great–grandfather (Eduardo's father) hailing from Prepezzano [it], a hamlet in Giffoni Sei Casali, located in the province of Salerno of the Campania region.
During their childhood, De Robertis moved across the world on several occasions following Edward's scientific career, starting in England, then moving to Basel, until finally settling in the United States, first in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles where they graduated from Palisades High School, and eventually to Oakland.
At the age of 19, De Robertis came out as bisexual, which they have described as the beginning of the process of their parents disowning them, which was complete by the time they were 25. Describing their relationship with their parents, they said that "they actually dug in their heels and tried to turn my siblings against my first child when I was pregnant with the first child.
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