From Spanish to English and Back - a writing journey across languages

Once upon a time there was a young woman who arrived on the shores of Australia with barely a world of English. For someone who, according to her mother, had been ‘born talking’; someone who had grown up with her head buried in novels, who wrote her first award-winning poem (in Spanish) at the age of 10, finished writing her first novella at the age of 14 and won her first national writing competition at the age of 15; someone who had always understood the world around her in terms of metaphors and grew up dreaming of becoming a professional writer, having to find a voice in a new language at the age of twenty appeared to be an insurmountable challenge.

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