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Sara Torres 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 (Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros) (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations), for the best new author in 2022.[3] EducationShe 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. CareerTorres 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 Está bien sentir (It's okay to feel). Awards
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