Carolina de Robertis

Uruguayan-American author and educator

Carolina de Robertis (born 1975) is a Uruguayan-American author and educator.

Carolina de Robertis in 2019

Quotes

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  • Writing can be a way of honoring those who’ve suffered real traumas and often surmounted them. And when a story has not yet been fully reflected in formal histories, the telling has a purpose, or so we hope…
  • At some point, the novelist has to leap head first into the pool of imagination in order to more freely explore the truth.
  • As a Rioplatense person of European decent, I feel strongly about the urgency of retelling the stories of our nation’s histories, the Argentinian and Uruguayan national stories and cultural stories, in ways that fully recognize the presence of black people. Which is a huge part of the greater story of the Americas as well. You cannot tell the story of the Americas without the story of black people and the transatlantic slave trade — that mass atrocity. Alongside, of course, the genocide of indigenous people. And also the cultural richness and artistic production and stories of resilience and power that, too, come out of those harsh realities that are at the origin of the Americas.
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