Blouberg writer encourages others to tell their stories

• Published date: 24 April 2024
• Author: Tara Isaacs tara.isaacs@acm.co.za
• Publication title: Tabletalk

She walked away with the Contribution to Literary Arts 2024 award and the Best Book Published by a Single Author Award 2024 at the ceremony held at the Krystal Beach Hotel in Gordon’s Bay earlier this month

Ms Little-Viglino said it had taken her almost four decades to complete her faith-based book.

“But without all those years, I would not have content. God wanted content,” she said.

She said she was 9 years old when she started writing, and had always imagined having her book up on a shelf in a bookstore.

“This dream might become a reality,” she said, adding that it’s exactly what the book hopes to achieve for its readers.

“I would have anxiety if I was not writing, and since I released this book, there’s a weight lifted from my shoulders,” she said.

The book, she says, details events where she was “searching for answers in other spheres of life,” such as in nightclubs, alcohol abuse, and romantic relationships.

But it wasn’t until she had an “encounter with God,” that made her turn her life around, she says.

This is when she came “face to face with her worst enemy: herself,” as she says in the book, which also details how her journey of self-discovery had its twists and turns, but ended in her finding herself living a life filled with “purpose and possibilities”.

“Although the book is faith-based, it can touch the lives of many who feel they are living without purpose and it is aimed at bringing hope and healing to the broken and depressed,” she added.

Ms Little-Viglino now refers to writing as “a calling”.

She said she procrastinated while writing the book because of “shame”, referring to the things she did in the past.

“I...