In Other Words - Spanish Day in Focus
Lost In Books, in partnership with Instituto Cervantes, NAATI, SBS and Congress Rental Australia, presents a gathering of leading Spanish-language writers, translators and thinkers exploring language, storytelling and cultural exchange. Featuring live conversations, readings, provocations and audience discussion, every session will be presented in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English. Whether Spanish is your first language, your heritage language, a language you are learning, or simply one you love to read in translation, In Other Words creates a space where audiences can participate equally across languages.
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Featured Speakers
Mariana Enriquez
Award-winning Argentine author and journalist recognised internationally for her fiction exploring horror, politics, memory and contemporary society. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has become a defining voice in contemporary Latin American literature.
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Rosario Lázaro Igoa is a Uruguayan writer, literary translator, and researcher in translation studies. She is the author of the nouvelle Mayito (2006) and the short story collections Peces mudos (2016) and Cráteres artificiales (2021), both published by Criatura Editora; the latter received the second National Literature Prize in Uruguay. She also published the essay collection Hasta el sol y todas las ciudades en el medio (Criatura, 2024), a series of texts originally published in newspapers and magazines that explore displacement, belonging, language, and translation. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies and literary journals in several languages. Alongside her writing, she works as a literary translator from Portuguese and English into Spanish. She co‑edited and translated Mário de Andrade’s Crónicas de melancolía eufórica (2016) and has translated authors including Edmund de Waal, Danielle McLaughlin, and Beatriz Bracher.
Rosario Lázaro Igoa
Rosario Lázaro Igoa is a writer, literary translator, and researcher in translation studies. She authored the novel Mayito (2006); the short story collections Peces mudos (2016) and Cráteres artificiales (2021), which won the second National Literature Prize in Uruguay; and the essay collection Hasta el sol y todas las ciudades en el medio (2024).
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Elizabeth Mora
Elizabeth Mora is Sambita’s sister, Eugenia’s daughter, Fabian’s niece, and Rosario’s Vera Cruz. Together, they are family. An Ecuadorian born in Queens, she writes from Latin American diasporas shaped by labour migration and displacement. Her work focuses on memory, movement, and survival across borders. She is a 2026 resident writer at the Think+DO Tank Foundation Weekend Writers’ Residency Program and a recipient of the “Our North is the South” Latin American Literary initiative supported by Sweatshop Literacy Movement. She writes Shungo, a personal newsletter on Substack.
Fabricio Tocco
Fabricio Tocco is an author and musician. He teaches Latin American literature at the Australian National University. His debut novel Parece diciembre (It Looks Like December, Buenos Aires-London: Equidistancias, 2025), a coming-of-age story set against Argentina’s 2001 crisis, weaves together migration, diaspora, identity, and the power of music and literature.
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Fabricio Tocco is an author and a musician. He grew up between Buenos Aires (Argentina) and the interior of São Paulo state (Brazil). He has lived in Barcelona, Paris and Vancouver (Canada), where he earned his PhD in Literature. He currently lives in Canberra, where he works as a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University. He is the author of the novel Parece diciembre (It Looks Like December, Buenos Aires-London: Equidistancias, 2025), a coming-of-age story set against Argentina’s 2001 crisis, weaving together migration, diaspora, identity, and the transformative power of music and literature. He has also authored two award-winning books: Latin American Detectives against Power: Individualism, the State and Failure in Crime Fiction (New York: Bloombsury, 2022), winner of the International Crime Fiction Association Book of the Year Prize, and Precarious Secrets: A History of the Latin American Political Thriller (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025), that was granted the Australian Academy of Humanities Pubication Subsidy Scheme. The book spawned the documentary Precarious Secrets, available on SBS On Demand. He has also released four albums that explore South American roots music, including Las aventuras perdidas (Club del Disco, 2022), a series of musical settings of Alejandra Pizarnik’s poems.