Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro (

Gijón Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality by population in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coa ...

, 1991) is a Spanish poet and novelist. In 2014, she won the

Gloria Fuertes Gloria Fuertes García (28 July 1917 – 27 November 1998) was a Spanish poet, author of children's literature, and regular participant in children's television shows. She was part of the post-war literary movement of ''postismo'', and a member ...

Prize for children's poetry. For her first novel, ''Lo que hay'', she received the "Javier Morote" Award, awarded by CEGAL () (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 The University of Oviedo (, Asturian: ''Universidá d'Uviéu'') is a public university in Asturias (Spain). It is the only university in the region. It has three campus and research centres, located in Oviedo, Gijón and Mieres. History Th ...

. She received her PhD from

Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public university, public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University ...

with the thesis ''The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings''. Also in

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, she completed an interdisciplinary master's degree at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

specializing in theories of textuality,

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

queer studies Queer studies, sexual diversity studies, or LGBTQ studies is the study of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender dysphoric, asexual, aromantic, queer, question ...

, and

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

Career

Torres has been a professor of cultural studies with a gender perspective at the

Autonomous University of Barcelona The Autonomous University of Barcelona (; Spanish: ; ; UAB) is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. , the university consists of 57 departments in the experimental, lif ...

. In 2022, she was the coordinator of the Poetry in Action cycle at the

Carmen Thyssen Museum The Carmen Thyssen Museum (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga) is an art museum in the Spanish city Málaga. The main focus of the museum is 19th-century Spanish painting, predominantly Andalusian, based on the collection of Carmen Cervera, fifth wife o ...

Málaga Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populo ...

. As of 2022, she lives in Germany and works on a postdoctoral fellowship at the

University of Passau The University of Passau (''Universität Passau'' in German) is a public research university located in Passau, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1973, it is the youngest university in Bavaria and consequently has the most modern campus in the ...

, researching the writing that emerges after receiving a cancer diagnosis She also writes regularly for '' elDiario.es'' in the section (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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Torres, Sara 1991 births Living people 21st-century Spanish poets 21st-century Spanish novelists 21st-century Spanish women writers Spanish women poets Spanish women novelists People from Gijón Alumni of Queen Mary University of London Alumni of King's College London Spanish lesbian writers University of Oviedo alumni