“Don’t be afraid to be wrong. Just write as much as you can, put it away, and let it marinate. That’s very important.”

Pola Oloixarac expresses the value of belonging to a community of writers, exchanging feedback, and understanding each other’s creative process. “It’s these communities that give birth to trends and cultural movements.”

She explains how she always writes about several things at once and organizes her thoughts into various folders on her computer. “I’m also working on an essay on Borges—Borges as a troll. I love it. That one has been marinating for a while.” She laughs and adds that some texts need an advanced kind of marinating.

Pola Oloixarac (a pseudonym for Paola Caracciolo) is an Argentine writer, journalist, and translator. She was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. Her debut novel, ‘Savage Theories’, was a breakout bestseller in Argentina and was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award, and in 2010, Granta recognized her as one of the best young Spanish-language novelists. She was awarded the 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award. Oloixarac is a regular contributor to prominent media such as The New York Times and Rolling Stone. She is a founding editor of ‘The Buenos Aires Review’, a bilingual journal featuring contemporary literature in the Americas. Her third novel Mona came in Spanish in 2019 and was translated into English in 2021.

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