En otras palabras: el español en primer plano
In Other Words: Spanish in Focus
Saturday 25 July, 3.00pm-6.00pm at Glebe Town Hall
Lost In Books, in partnership with NAATI, SBS in Spanish and Congress Rental, and the support of Cervantes Institute and the Embassy of Uruguay in Australia, presents a gathering of leading Spanish-language writers, translators and thinkers exploring language, storytelling and literary exchange. Featuring internationally renowned author Mariana Enriquez, alongside Fabricio Tocco, Elizabeth Mora and Rosario Lázaro Igoa, In Other Words is an ambitious emerging literary festival that brings multilingual voices to the fore through simultaneous interpretation. A mix of 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.
About the Event
What does it mean to write in Spanish within an English-dominant literary landscape? How do Spanish-speaking writers connect with and respond to Australian literary traditions? What words do they choose when writing across experiences of displacement and translation?
In Other Words offers a unique opportunity for both Spanish and non-Spanish speakers to engage on equal terms. It celebrates the coexistence of languages, and the creative tensions between them, as a reflection of everyday life in multicultural Australia. By challenging the central role of English, the festival opens up new, speculative ways of thinking, writing, and living.
Language of the event: Spanish with simultaneous interpretation into English.
Program
Saturday 25 July, 3.00pm-6.00pm Glebe Town Hall
3.00pm – 4.00pm Join writers Fabricio Tocco (Argentina), Elizabeth Mora (Australia/Ecuador), and Rosario Lázaro Igoa (Uruguay) in conversation, facilitated by journalist Esther Lozano (SBS Spanish)
4.00pm Interval and book signing
4.30pm – 6.00pm Acclaimed author Mariana Enriquez (Argentina) in conversation with María Herminia Graterol
6.00pm Book signing and close
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
Uruguayan 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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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.
Elizabeth Mora
An Ecuadorian born in Queens, she writes from Latin American diasporas shaped by labour migration and displacement. 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.
Fabricio Tocco
Argentine author and musician. He teaches Latin American literature at the Australian National University in Canberra. 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.
Titles at Lost In Books
Facilitators
María Herminia Graterol
Venezuelan women’s rights activist with a passion for the arts. Her career has focused on rights of women and children living in poverty and has taken her to many countries. In the last five years she was a consultant to different women’s organizations, including the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific and the Feminist Alliance for Rights. She served on the board of the Think+DO Tank Foundation for 6 years.
Esther Lozano
Experienced multimedia journalist and communications officer with an extensive career both in Australia and Spain. Esther balances her roles as a Photography tutor, Documentary Filmmaker, SBS Radio journalist, and practitioner of social and artistic photography. Her work has been featured in several group exhibitions in Sydney.
Interpreters
Silvia Martínez
Silvia Martínez is a NAATI-Certified Conference Interpreter, Certified Specialist Legal Interpreter and Certified Translator. Originally from Uruguay, Silvia was raised and still lives on the land of the Darug in Sydney
Cintia Lee
Cintia Lee is a NAATI Certified Interpreter and Translator (Spanish<>English) with extensive experience across courts, conferences, and community settings in Australia. She holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Deusto and is a NAATI examiner, educator, and active advocate for professional standards in interpreting and translation. She is the current AUSIT Spanish Language Division Delegate.
Our Sponsors, Partners and Supporters
Sponsors : NAATI & Congress Rentals Australia
Supporters : Cervantes Institute, City of Sydney, and Embassy of Uruguay in Australia
Media Partner : SBS in Spanish