Sara Torres
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.
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- Name
- Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro
- Born
- 1991
- Birthplace
- Gijón
- Occupation
- * Novelist
- Full name
- Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro.
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Education
- University of Oviedo, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London.
- Languages
- Spanish and English.
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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.
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Biography
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.
Persona(s) en la fotografía:Elisa Coll Blanco, Mafe Moscoso, Alana S. Portero, Sara Torres y Rosario Villajos
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Persona(s) en la fotografía:Elisa Coll Blanco, Mafe Moscoso, Alana S. Portero, Sara Torres y Rosario Villajos
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro • Born — 1991 • Birthplace — Gijón • Occupation — * Novelist • Poet • Writer
Education
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
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).
Collective work
Collective work
• Querida Theresa. Comisura, 2022
Participation in anthologies
Participation in anthologies
• Outra maneira de olhar (editors: Carlos Castillo Pais & Miguel Floriano) Ediçoes Colobri, Lisboa 2020.
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
Awards
• 2014, Premio Gloria Fuertes, XV edition, for La otra genealogía • 2022, Premio Javier Morote, for Lo que hay
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