![]() ![]() It feels like the five women in Cantoras have a ‘shared language’. It’s under-documented, as queer histories often are. But even so, the full story of this place – how it served as a refuge for queer people in the dictatorship years – seems to still fly under the radar. It’s become a sought-after beach paradise, with tourists from Brazil and Argentina flocking to the famed bohemian enclave and stunning shoreline. The popularity of Cabo Polonio has exploded since I first visited, twenty years ago now, on the trip where I first met the women whose lives inspired this novel. How well known is the story of Cabo Polonio in Uruguay? Set in Carolina’s native Uruguay, Cantoras tells the story of five lesbians through the dictatorship years of the 1970s and 80s, inspired by real women who set up a community in the coastal town of Cabo Polonio. Sounds and Colours spoke to Carolina about Cantoras and her literary work. ![]() Her own novels include: The Gods of Tango (which also won a Stonewall Book Award) Perla international bestseller The Invisible Mountain and The President and the Frog(forthcoming in May 2021). She has translated Latin American and Spanish literature into English, and is an editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. ![]() Carolina de Robertis was a winner of the Stonewall Book Award, the Reading Women Award, a Lambda Literary Award and was a Kirkus Prize finalist for her novel Cantoras. ![]()
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