Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Books on prize lists

• Las niñas del naranjel

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  National Book Award 2025 · ★ Winner

  We Are Green and Trembling

  Las niñas del naranjel

  Gabriela Cabezón Cámara · 55 when first published

  Novel · Historical

  Translated by Robin Myers

  AIAI-generated summary:In the seventeenth-century South American jungle, a runaway conquistador who was born a girl in Spain flees with two starving young girls and begins a letter to the aunt who runs the convent he escaped as a novice.

• Las aventuras de la China Iron

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  International Booker 2020 · Shortlist

  The Adventures of China Iron

  Las aventuras de la China Iron

  Gabriela Cabezón Cámara · 49 when first published

  Novel · Love

  Translated by Fiona Mackintosh, Iona Macintyre

  AIAI-generated summary:Freed from the gaucho who won her at cards, a young woman of the pampas, the China Iron, sets out across the Argentine desert with Liz, an Englishwoman searching for her husband.