‘My beloved aunt, I am as innocent and forged in the image and likeness of God as any other, as every other, though I have been a cabin boy, shopkeeper, and soldier, and before then, long before, a small girl at your skirts.’
Robin Myers
Robin Myers is a poet and Spanish-to-English translator
A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was shortlisted for the 2024 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Recent translations include We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026; Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza (co-translated with Sarah Booker); and Bariloche, Love Training, and A Father Is Born by Andrés Neuman, among many other works of poetry and prose. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2022, Guernica, The Drift, Poetry London, Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Annulet Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, and other journals.
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Written in luminous, wild, lyrical and inventive language, We Are Green and Trembling is at once playful and devastating, tender and enraging
The International Booker Prize 2026 judges on We Are Green and Trembling
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A queer, baroque, tender and surreal novel that conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America
Translated by Robin Myers
