Sara Torres
Spanish writer (born 1991)
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Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro (Gijón, 1991) is a Spanish poet and novelist.[1] In 2014, she won the Gloria Fuertes Prize for children's poetry.[2] For her first novel, Lo que hay, she received the "Javier Morote" Award, awarded by CEGAL (Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros) (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations), for the best new author in 2022.[3] She is openly a lesbian and has discussed her experiences as a lesbian woman and her writing about love and desire between women in interviews and essays on lesbian identity.[4][5]
Education
She studied Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Oviedo.[6] She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London with the thesis The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings.[7] Also in London, she completed an interdisciplinary master's degree at King's College London specializing in theories of textuality, psychoanalysis, queer studies, and feminism.
Career
Torres has been a professor of cultural studies with a gender perspective at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2022, she was the coordinator of the Poetry in Action cycle at the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga.[8]
As of 2022, she lives in Germany and works on a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Passau, researching the writing that emerges after receiving a cancer diagnosis[9] She also writes regularly for elDiario.es in the section Está bien sentir (It's okay to feel).
Awards
- 2014, Premio Gloria Fuertes, XV edition, for La otra genealogía
- 2022, Premio Javier Morote, for Lo que hay
Selected works
Books
- La otra genealogía. Torremozas, 2014
- Conjuros y cantos. Kriller71, 2016
- Phantasmagoria. La Bella Varsovia, 2019
- El ritual del baño. La Bella Varsovia, 2021
- Lo que hay. Reservoir Books, 2022. (Premio Javier Morote), 2022
- Deseo de perro. Letraversal, 2023
- La seducción. Reservoir Books, 2024
Collective work
- Querida Theresa. Comisura, 2022
Participation in anthologies
- Outra maneira de olhar (editors: Carlos Castillo Pais & Miguel Floriano) Ediçoes Colobri, Lisboa 2020.[10]