Sara barquinero
Sara Barquinero is an award-winning Spanish philosopher and writer. Throughout her short but successful career, the young woman has received numerous awards, including the Unir Foundation's Universal Values Essay Prize (2016), the Virginia Woolf Prize for short stories in English (2017), and the IAJ Prize for artistic and technological creation in the literature category (2018).
Her latest notable achievement was the Voces Nuevas Poetry Prize from Editorial Torremozas (2019). All these awards have been due to his extensive dedication to literature, through which he has not only managed to express his thoughts and emotions, but has also taught scholars new ways to bring Literature and Philosophy into the realm of student art activism.
Brief biography of Sara Barquinero
First studies
Sara Barquinero del Toro was born in 1994, in the city of Zaragoza, Spain. She felt interested in Literature and the Arts when she was very young., so during his university years he decided to study formally at the Faculty of Philosophy of the university of his homeland, where he graduated in this chair. Later, he moved to Madrid to do a Master's degree.
In the capital, he studied Creative Writing and Literary Creation, obtaining a master's degree from the Hotel Kafka School of Letters. Thanks to her efforts, in 2018 she was contacted by the Department of Education, Culture and Sport of the Government of Aragon, which awarded him the Luis Buñuel Scholarship. This allowed him to carry out research and creations at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid.
Beginning of his doctoral thesis
After completing her study process for the Luis Buñuel Scholarship, Sara Barquinero began her doctoral thesis. In 2017, He prepared his project on Kant's concept of the sublime and the relations of time and freedomThis one is titled Contemporary political readings of the Critique of Judgment, and was carried out within the FPU —University Teacher Training—.
During her research, Sara was welcomed by the Faculty of Philosophy, within the Metaphysics, Criticism and Politics group of the Complutense University. Later in his career, he created the art project Siebaruaq, which is based on three types of expressions: literary objects, calligrams and fanzines. At the same time, they explore different techniques, such as sketching, dictionary art and collage.
Presence in artistic activism
Next to Siebaruaq, Sara Barquinero has participated in different events associated with artistic activismThis practice has been strengthened by its membership in the Collective of Artists in Solidarity Action of Aragon, whose purpose is to promote art as an expression of current social concerns and injustices in order to contribute to the common good of students, teachers and communities.
At the same time, Another of his activities is to collaborate with the magazine Kalos, a publication focused on Aragonese art and culture. But Sara Barquinero's work encompasses much more, as she has also ventured into poetry, a literary form with which she won the Voces Nuevas poetry prize from Ediciones Torremozas, which specializes in literature written by women.
All works by Sara Barquinero
- New Voices, Torremozas Collection (2019);
- Port, Milenio Publishing House (2020);
- I will be alone and without a party, Lumen (2021);
- Scorpions, Lumen (2024).
Sara Barquinero's most notable works
Port (2020)
The novel follows the peculiar story of two people who meet at an airport.On the one hand, she is waiting for the plane that will take her to visit her boyfriend, while awaiting her lover's response to a proposal. On the other, he says that this will probably be his last trip. Faced with the anguish and boredom that they both feel, they start a conversation about guilt and death.
At the same time, they talk about love, motherhood, and the difficulties of leading a functional adult life. At the same time, Behind him, a child returning to his country after a stay financed by an NGO wonders whether he should commit the small crime.
I will be alone and without a party (2021)
One day, by chance, The protagonist of this story finds Yna's personal diary, in which she described the chronicle of her life.. Not knowing who this passionate stranger is, who writes with simplicity about her overwhelming love for Alejandro during 1990, the main character begins to ask questions when he finds that he cannot stop thinking about the notebook.
There is something in Yna's beautiful prose that pushes her to want to know more., and forces her to stop thinking about herself until she puts her whole life on hold to begin an investigation that takes her to Bilbao, Barcelona, Salou, Peñíscola and, finally, back to Zaragoza. The latter is her origin, that of Yna, Alejandro and, of course, the manuscript. This is a novel of mystery, romance and philosophy.
Scorpions (2014)
This is not only the consecration of Sara Barquinero as a young author, but also as a great exponent of Spanish literature. Scorpions portrays the existential crises of Sara and Thomas, two young people who find themselves caught up in a mysterious conspiracy theory, which is led by political and economic leaders who seek to create control through hypnosis.
They also use books, video games and music to encourage suicide. Both protagonists suffer from emotional problems that, at the same time, urge them to investigate what is hidden behind this sect. named after one of the few special animals that prefers to die rather than endure pain. It is a profound analysis of today's society and its anguish.
The 15 best-selling books of 2024
- See you in August, by Gabriel García Márquez;
- The dance, by Irène Némirovsky;
- A wild animal, by Joel Dicker;
- Lose the trial, by Ariana Harwicz;
- Baumgartner, by Paul Auster;
- Phantom love, by Lisa Taddeo;
- The child, by Fernando Aramburu;
- The maid's daughters, by Sonsoles Ónega;
- Three enigmas for the Organization, by Eduardo Mendoza;
- mirage, by Camilla Läckberg;
- The city and its uncertain walls, by Haruki Murakami;
- General essay, by Milena Tusquets;
- The abyss of oblivion, by Paco Roca and Rodrigo Terrasa;
- The echo of ancient books, by Barbara Davis;
- The forgotten son, by Mikel Santiago.