Seated on a comfortable sofa in her studio, Blanca Castellon expressed her literary ideas in an exclusive interview with the weekly literary supplement of the La Prensa daily newspaper. Castellon and her poetry already have a place in Nicaraguan literature.
Any award is encouraging, no matter how modest.
It's a pat on the shoulder that makes you feel understood and pushes you to keep opening doors. It's a nice feeling when your words cross borders, even if it's only a small group of people from another country that read them. It gives you confidence in your work and that's always healthy. In competitions, above all it's the personal criteria of the judges that prevail. Sometimes you get lucky.