My name is Sara Herrera Peralta. I was born in Trebujena (Spain) in 1980 and spent my childhood in Jerez de la Frontera. I currently live in a forest, next to a village of six hundred inhabitants in the department of Le Lot in the south of France, after having lived in different European countries, in cities such as San Sebastian, Helsinki, Malaga, Paris, London and Toulouse. I am a mother of two (wonderful) children and a full-time worker, I read, cultivate a garden, raise chickens, sometimes I write. I’ve published twelve books of poetry and a novel. My latest collection of poems, Un mapa cómo (La Bella Varsovia, 2022), received the Subirana Prize for the best edition, was a finalist for the XXIX Critics’ Award of the Andalusian Association of Literary Critics and for the II National Poetry Prize City of Churriana in Spain, and has been selected as one of the best books of poetry published in Spain in 2022 by El Periódico and by the bookshops Letras Corsarias, La Montaña Mágica, El Agente Secreto Libros and Sputnik. My first novel, Arroz Montevideo (La Isla de Siltolá, 2016), was selected at the 31st edition of the Festival du premier roman de Chambéry (France) as one of the best first works of the year in Spanish. My poetic work has received the Martín García Ramos International Youth Poetry Prize (for De ida y vuelta), the Ana de Valle Prize (for Provocatio) and the Carmen Conde Prize (for Documentum) and has been partially translated into English, French, Portuguese, Italian and Esperanto. With my first nouvelle in French, Du lait, du fil, I was a finalist for the 27th edition of the Sorbonne's Nouvelle Prize in 2022. My poetic work focuses on intimate and collective memory, genealogy, feminism and social poetry. I’m interested in the political dimension of literary texts and in fragility, the things that break easily, as well as in the dialogue between literature and other artistic disciplines. I hold a degree in Arts, Letters, Human and Social Sciences and a Masters in General and Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne University. I’m currently working on a new poetry project with a writing grant from the General Directorate of Books and Reading Promotion of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
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