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]
Education
editShe studied Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Oviedo.[4] She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London with the thesis The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings.[5] 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
editTorres 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.[6]
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[7] She also writes regularly for elDiario.es in the section Está bien sentir (It's okay to feel).
Awards
edit- 2014, Premio Gloria Fuertes, XV edition, for La otra genealogía
- 2022, Premio Javier Morote, for Lo que hay
Selected works
editBooks
edit- 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
edit- Querida Theresa. Comisura, 2022
Participation in anthologies
edit- Outra maneira de olhar (editors: Carlos Castillo Pais & Miguel Floriano) Ediçoes Colobri, Lisboa 2020.[8]
References
edit- ^ Abad, Paloma (19 May 2022). "Sara Torres: "El drama más bestial es que un cuerpo que se enfrenta al miedo a la muerte tenga que preocuparse por ser femenino y deseable"". Vogue España (in European Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Alumna gana el premio Gloria Fuertes - Noticias". fyl.uniovi.es. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "Sara Torres recibe el premio de los libreros como autora revelación". La Nueva España (in Spanish). 18 February 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "Sara Torres" (in Spanish). Fundación Antonio Gala. 19 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "Sara Torres: "Ser mujer y lesbiana suena a precariedad doble"". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 27 June 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ Vargas, Isabel (8 June 2022). "Sara Torres: "Me recuerdo de adolescente pidiendo perdón y rezando a dios por las noches porque deseaba"". El Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ Marcos, Mónica Zas (30 May 2022). "Sara Torres: "Las guerras de amor entre una madre y una hija se parecen a las de dos amantes"". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ Cuaderno (3 February 2020). "Outra maneira de olhar, outra maneira de falar". El Cuaderno (in Spanish).