Jess Ibacache
'We live here. We are a part of society. We are a minority, but our stories matter.'
'We live here. We are a part of society. We are a minority, but our stories matter.'
I wasn’t aware of any novels published in Australia about the experience of Uruguayans living in here. I felt it was a story that was missing in Australian literature.
I love how Elif Shafak puts it: 'Are we slightly different people in different languages? I think we are not different, but we definitely express ourselves differently.'
'Creating eases dislocation, helps us process emotions, and shifts our thinking patterns.'
Musician, poet and actor Christian Ravello talks about childhood memories, a life-changing trip to Chile, rock latino and the film Here Out West.
Growing up, the country was an idea in my head, but not the one I knew when I went there. It was like sort of looking at a city in a strange new way, yet understanding things such as the way people talk, act and behave.
Argentinian-born photographer and poet Daniel Sacchero remembers his childhood in Argentina and talks about his first poetry collection, Distancia Cero.
Alejandro del Castillo is an award-winning Mexican author and editor living in Naarm (Melbourne). His editorial house, Revarena Ediciones, is now making strides in Australia, where it has published a bilingual anthology of short stories and poetry by emerging Latinx writers in Australia and emerging writers in Latin America.