{{Short description|Spanish writer (born 1991)}} {{Spanish married name|Torres|Rodríguez de Castro}} thumb|Sara Torres (2024) '''Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro''' (Gijón, 1991) is a Spanish poet and novelist.<ref name="1eswp">{{cite news |last1=Abad |first1=Paloma |title=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” |url=https://www.vogue.es/living/articulos/lo-que-hay-sara-torres-libros |access-date=20 August 2024 |work=Vogue España |date=19 May 2022 |language=es-ES}}</ref> In 2014, she won the Gloria Fuertes Prize for children's poetry.<ref name="7eswp">{{cite web |title=Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Alumna gana el premio Gloria Fuertes - Noticias |url=https://fyl.uniovi.es/noticias/-/asset_publisher/0002/content/alumna-gana-el-premio-gloria-fuertes;jsessionid=ED4821FE4562983A5CFF41694102EF16?redirect=/ |website=fyl.uniovi.es |access-date=20 August 2024}}</ref> For her first novel, ''Lo que hay'', she received the "Javier Morote" Award, awarded by CEGAL ({{lang|es|Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros|italics=yes}}) (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations), for the best new author in 2022.<ref name="8eswp">{{cite web |title=Sara Torres recibe el premio de los libreros como autora revelación |url=https://www.lne.es/sociedad/2023/02/18/sara-torres-recibe-premio-libreros-83175089.html |website=La Nueva España |access-date=20 August 2024 |language=es |date=18 February 2023}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sara Torres: "Cada vez estamos más lejos del diferente" |url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20211017/camara-abierta-entrevista-nerea-perez-heras-humorista-periodista/2190921.shtml |newspaper=RTVE |date=2021-10-17 |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sara Torres: "Mi infancia y adolescencia estuvieron repletas de pasiones..." |url=https://www.vogue.es/articulos/sara-torres-entrevista-lesbianismo-lgbt |website=Vogue España |date=2024-06-28 |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
==Education== She studied Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Oviedo.<ref name="2eswp">{{cite web |title=Sara Torres |url=https://www.fundacionantoniogala.org/residente/sara-torres |publisher=Fundación Antonio Gala |access-date=20 August 2024 |language=es |date=19 August 2024}}</ref> She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London with the thesis ''The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings''.<ref name="3eswp">{{cite news |title=Sara Torres: "Ser mujer y lesbiana suena a precariedad doble" |url=https://www.elmundo.es/loc/famosos/2022/06/27/62b465b0fc6c83d42c8b459e.html |access-date=20 August 2024 |work=ELMUNDO |date=27 June 2022 |language=es}}</ref> 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.<ref name="4eswp">{{cite news |last1=Vargas |first1=Isabel |title=Sara Torres: "Me recuerdo de adolescente pidiendo perdón y rezando a dios por las noches porque deseaba" |url=https://www.elespanol.com/malaga/cultura/20220608/sara-torres-recuerdo-adolescente-pidiendo-rezando-deseaba/678432453_0.html |access-date=20 August 2024 |work=El Español |date=8 June 2022 |language=es}}</ref>
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<ref name="5eswp">{{cite news |last1=Marcos |first1=Mónica Zas |title=Sara Torres: "Las guerras de amor entre una madre y una hija se parecen a las de dos amantes" |url=https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/libros/sara-torres-madre-hija-duelo_1_9033413.html |access-date=20 August 2024 |work=ElDiario.es |date=30 May 2022 |language=es}}</ref> She also writes regularly for ''elDiario.es'' in the section {{lang|es|Está bien sentir|italics=yes}} (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.<ref name="6eswp">{{cite web|date=3 February 2020 |language=es |last=Cuaderno |title=Outra maneira de olhar, outra maneira de falar |url=https://elcuadernodigital.com/2020/02/04/outra-maneira-de-olhar-outra-maneira-de-falar/ |website=El Cuaderno}}<!-- auto-translated from unknown (Italian or Spanish) by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
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