Sara Torres Explained

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 (Spanish; Castilian: Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros|italics=yes) (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations), for the best new author in 2022.[3]

Education

She 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

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.[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 Spanish; Castilian: Está bien sentir|italics=yes (It's okay to feel).

Awards

Selected works

Books

Collective work

Participation in anthologies

Notes and References

  1. News: Abad . Paloma . 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” . 20 August 2024 . Vogue España . 19 May 2022 . es-ES.
  2. Web site: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Alumna gana el premio Gloria Fuertes - Noticias . fyl.uniovi.es . 20 August 2024.
  3. Web site: Sara Torres recibe el premio de los libreros como autora revelación . La Nueva España . 20 August 2024 . es . 18 February 2023.
  4. Web site: Sara Torres . Fundación Antonio Gala . 20 August 2024 . es . 19 August 2024.
  5. News: Sara Torres: "Ser mujer y lesbiana suena a precariedad doble" . 20 August 2024 . ELMUNDO . 27 June 2022 . es.
  6. News: Vargas . Isabel . Sara Torres: "Me recuerdo de adolescente pidiendo perdón y rezando a dios por las noches porque deseaba" . 20 August 2024 . El Español . 8 June 2022 . es.
  7. News: Marcos . Mónica Zas . Sara Torres: "Las guerras de amor entre una madre y una hija se parecen a las de dos amantes" . 20 August 2024 . ElDiario.es . 30 May 2022 . es.
  8. Web site: 3 February 2020 . es . Cuaderno . Outra maneira de olhar, outra maneira de falar . El Cuaderno.

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