Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Akashic Noir Books

Gabriela Cabezón Camara is a published Argentine writer and journalist.

She was born November 4, 1968 in San Isidro.

Gabriela is thought to be one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Latin American literature. She is also considered to be an intellectual, a feminist, and a socio-environmental activist.

The Adventures of China Iron is an early book from Gabriela Cabezón Camara. It was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020.

The year is 1872 and the place is the pampas of Argentina. China’s a younger woman who is making an existence for herself placed in a remote gaucho encampment. Her husband is conscripted into the army but he was never any good anyway. China makes her way for freedom, going on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of Liz, a new friend who is a settler from Scotland.

Liz gives China a sentimental education and tells her about the nefarious ways of the British Empire. On the way, their eyes get opened to the wonders of the richly diverse flora and fauna of Argentina, its culture, its languages, and the violence that is often involved when it comes to building nations.

This is the retelling of the gaucho epic in a way that readers will not want to miss. It celebrates the movement and the color of the living world, of love, of sex, of the open road, and of the dream of lasting freedom. With sophistication and humor, this author has come up with a happy novel that is not only hallucinatory but a critique of national myths. Read this book to experience it all for yourself!

We Are Green and Trembling is a 2025 book by Gabriela Cabezón Camara. Interesting and lyrical, surreal and tender, this is a new novel that finds hope for the future in the history of colonial Latin America, which has historically been fairly brutal. This book is also the winner of the National Book award for Translated Literature.

While in the wild of the New World, Antonio de Erauso starts to compose a letter that is addressed to his aunt. His aunt is the prioress of the Basque convent that he escaped when he was young. Then he was a girl and was determined to get away from life as a nun, which seemed like a dead end. Now he is Antonio and has taken on great adventures. He’s worked as a mule driver, a soldier, a shopkeeper, a cabin boy, and a conquistador.

He has wielded his sword and slashed others with his dagger. Now he is busy taking care of two Guarani girls, who are with him because he decided that he just had to rescue them from being enslaved. He is also being tracked by the army that he decided to desert.

Now this protagonist is going through another metamorphosis which might be able to rescue the new world from going extinct. This story is based on the life of Antonio de Erauso, who was a real person who existed during the Spanish conquest.

This novel is a historical novel combined with a queer baroque satire. It brings together elements of the picaresque with surreal storytelling. It also contains imaginative language that creates a criticism of colonialism and conquest, religious tyranny, and how indigenous people and women are treated. It subverts Latin American history with a trans individual as its focus, finding in the rainforest just the type of place that is surreal enough and magical enough to allow for transformation. Read We Are Green and Trembling to absorb every delectable word and detail!