Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro (Gijón, 1991) is a Spanish poet and novelist. In 2014, she won the Gloria Fuertes Prize for children's poetry. 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.
Education
She studied Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Oviedo. She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London with the thesis The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings. 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.
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 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.
References
- ^ 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).