Booker Prize shortlisted Dutch author of The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden was raised trilingually, teaches comparative literature and moves between English, Hebrew and Dutch in her own life and work.

Best-selling author of The Bone Tree, Airana Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru, Ngāruahine) opted to write his new short story collection Pātea Boys in both English and te reo Māori, with readers able to flick between two languages.

Emirati spoken word poet Afra Atiq was born in the UAE to an Emirati father and a Japanese-American mother, and blends English, Arabic and French in her poems.

Susana Lei'ataua meets them (in English) to hear what being multilingual means for them as writers.