"Embroidery as a great metaphor for life to raise questions about literature and art and memory, with an inexhaustible suggestive capacity. The voice of this novel and of these poems is pierced by an air of generational restlessness that appeals to me with particular insistence." -Nadal Suau, Babelia (El País).

"This is one of those times when what we call failure takes us to an unexpected shore, but one of our own (...). A writer-frontier, walking on the dividing lines, in books that do not want to choose a single language, a simple format, a single theme". -Alba Correa, VOGUE Spain.

‘A voracious testimony about the strength of the fragile and the resistance that inhabits art’. -Ainara Gómez, VEIN MAGAZINE.

‘Sara Herrera Peralta rescues the most unknown production of Louise Bourgeois to establish a dialogue with the famous artist, but also with herself and with so many other women who create while breeding, sewing on a button or mopping’ -Carolina Alba in La estación azul de RNE.

"One of the books of contemporary literature that you have to read in 2025. A novel about travel, displacement, fear and failure" -El Confidencial.

"Two beautiful books, written with luminosity, polyhedral (...). A debate on motherhood, on creation, on the limits and frontiers imposed". -Interview by Manuel Mateo Pérez in ‘La mirada desatada’ on Canal Sur Radio.

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Hi! 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 thirteen books of poetry and two novels. My previous 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. The collection of poems El piar de los pájaros y el goteo del agua que cae del techo (La Bella Varsovia, 2025), for the writing of which I received a grant for literary creation from the General Directorate of Books and Reading Promotion of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the novel Me fui como una tormenta (consonni, 2025) have just been published. Both books are part of a joint project on which I worked after a research in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne University on the written and embroidered work of Louise Bourgeois.

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