Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) and Gloria Susana Esquivel (Colombia) spoke about the transversal impact of issues of race, gender and class on their personal and literary trajectories. Both authors agree that growing up educated in fear and violence is a problem, a social trauma, they say, to which we barely know how to put words.

“I lost my innocence when I started thinking like that. When I started to distrust my peers”