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**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026**

**Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature**

A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso

‘Playful and devastating, tender and enraging’ INTERNATIONAL BOOKER JUDGES, 2026

‘Luminous’ SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN

‘Bold and compassionate’ Financial Times

From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl. Since leaving his past behind, he’s become Antonio, conquistador. Now, hiding in the jungle and hounded by the army he deserted, Antonio is caring for two Guarani girls he rescued from enslavement. But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them all from extinction.

Tender and surreal, We Are Green and Trembling conveys glimmers of hope for the future within the brutal colonial history of Latin America, finding in the rainforest a magical space for transformation.

‘Profoundly resonant… the power of storytelling to reclaim what history tries to erase’ Chicago Review of Books

‘Sensuous and searing – a queer anticolonial picaresque’ Publishers Weekly

‘Gabriela Cabezon Camara’s writing is singular in the Spanish language’ FERNANDA MELCHOR

Translated by Robin Myers

Publisher Review

Gabriela Cabezon Camara’s writing is singular in the Spanish language: an intrepid pulse that shakes and disarms us in the face of the wordless power, both formidable and innocent, of the jungle and the creatures it portrays — Fernanda Melchor So sharp, so urgent, so brave. Gabriela Cabezon Camara is one of the most authentic voices writing in Spanish today, and among her many talents is one that’s especially hard to find: not only does she challenge and incite us, not only does she confront the darkness, but she also gives us in return the subversive courage to think of ourselves as more human, more alive, and more luminous than ever — Samanta Schweblin “Cabezon Camara’s entrancing poetry reminds us how magical and frankly unpleasant it is to live through history * New York Times * This is the truth of Gabriela Cabezon Camara’s literature: it’s capable of questioning the very conception of the Western world through beauty. — Brenda Navarro