Sara Herrera Peralta was born in Trebujena (Spain) in 1980. She currently lives in Cazals, in the southwest of France. She has also lived in Jerez, San Sebastián, Helsinki, Málaga, Paris, London or Toulouse. She has published thirteen poetry collections and two novels in Spanish. Her first novel, Arroz Montevideo (La Isla de Siltolá, 2016), was selected at the 31st edition of the Festival du Premier Roman in Chambéry (France) as one of the best debut novels in Spanish.

Her poetry has received several awards, including 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. Her texts have been partially translated into several languages (English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Esperanto) and published or featured in renowned newspapers and magazines (El Mundo, El País, El Periódico de Catalunya, La Voz, El Ideal, and Vogue magazine).

In 2022, she was a finalist in the 27th edition of the Sorbonne Nouvelle Short Story Prize with her first French-language text, Du lait, du fil. Her literary work explores intimate and collective memory, genealogy, feminism, ecology, and violence through social poetry and hybrid texts. She examines the political dimension of literary texts and is drawn to fragility (what breaks easily), fostering dialogue between literature and other artistic disciplines.

She holds a degree in Arts, Letters, Languages, Human and Social Sciences, and a master's in General and Comparative Literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. Her poetry collection El piar de los pájaros y el goteo del agua que cae del techo (La Bella Varsovia) and her novel Me fui como una tormenta (consonni) were published in 2025 with support from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (literary creation grant from the Directorate-General for Books).

These two books form a diptych that Sara Herrera Peralta developed following a research project in Comparative Literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, focused on the written and embroidered work of Louise Bourgeois. Both books have been praised by the Spanish press and critics: magazines such as Vogue, Publishers (which selected the poetry collection as one of the best Spanish-language works of 2025), Vein, Ars Magazine; newspapers and cultural supplements including Babelia, El País, El Diario, CTXT, El Confidencial, 20 Minutos, as well as Spanish Radio and Television and the Canal Sur channel.

Photo: Samuel Capdeville

"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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