Sagrario Torres

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Torres and the second or maternal family name is Calderón.
María del Sagrario Torres Calderón
Sagrario Torres
Born(1922-03-08)March 8, 1922
Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Spain
DiedMarch 5, 2006(2006-03-05) (aged 83)
Madrid, Spain
OccupationPoet
Known forReligious and introspective poetry; member of the women's literary circle Versos con faldas
Notable work"Hormigón translúcido" (1970), "Poemas de La Diana" (1993)
MovementPostwar Spanish poetry
ChildrenFrancisco Javier Torres Calderón
AwardsConcha Espina Prize (1942)
Regional Merit Plaque of Castilla-La Mancha (2005)

María del Sagrario Torres Calderón (Valdepeñas, March 8, 1922 – Madrid, March 5, 2006) was a Spanish poet.[1]

Career

She was the daughter of Valdepeñas natives José Torres Montiel, a carpenter of Andalusian descent, and Mónica Calderón Rubio. She was orphaned of her father at a very young age and moved with her mother and brother to Madrid,[2] At the age of five she entered a municipal boarding school run by nuns in Alcalá de Henares. Her secondary studies were interrupted by the Spanish Civil War; she never resumed them and completed her education on her own. While in Madrid, she began to write poetry and prose and, during the 1940s, collaborated with newspapers and magazines.[3]

She received the Concha Espina Prize for new writers in 1942, and became friends with fellow Valdepeñas poet Juan Alcaide, Luis Felipe Vivanco, Leopoldo Panero, Luis Rosales, and the Valdepeñas-born painter and writer Gregorio Prieto. She took part in the women’s literary circle Versos con faldas, promoted by Gloria Fuertes, Adelaida Las Santas, and María Dolores de Pablos, between 1951 and 1953 in Madrid.[4]

In 1970 she was a finalist for the Álamo Prize with Hormigón translúcido. She received a literary creation grant from the Juan March Foundation in 1973, and another from the Ministry of Culture in 1982.[5][6] With her book Poemas de La Diana, she protested vigorously against the plan to designate the natural area around Anchuras as a military firing range—an area that was later protected as Cabañeros National Park.[7][8][9]

Her poetry is mainly strophic (sonnets, including the curious variant of the sonexástrofo: three quatrains and three tercets; occasionally liras). Her most important theme is the search for God. In 2005, the Government of Castilla-La Mancha awarded her the Regional Merit Plaque. She died on March 5, 2006, shortly before her eighty-second birthday.[10] Her personal archive and library (six thousand volumes) were donated by her son Francisco Javier Torres Calderón to the Municipal Historical Archive of Valdepeñas.[11] The city council named her Favorite Daughter of Valdepeñas in 1985[12] and gave her name to a park inaugurated that same year.[13]

Her works

  • Primer libro de poesías (1940–1950)
  • Segundo libro de poesías (1951–1963)
  • Tercer libro de poesías (August 1964 – September 1965)
  • Catorce bocas me alimentan. Sonetos. Madrid, Editora Nacional (1968)
  • Hormigón Translúcido. Salamanca (1970)
  • Carta a Dios. Madrid, Alfaguara (1971)
  • Esta espina dorsal estremecida. Sonetos. Madrid, Oriens (1973); 2nd ed. Madrid: Torremozas, 2007
  • Los ojos nunca crecen. Poema autobiográfico. Salamanca (1975)
  • Regreso al corazón. Madrid, Rialp (1981)
  • Íntima a Quijote. Madrid, Asociación de Escritores y Artistas Españoles (1986)
  • Poemas de La Diana. Salamanca (1993)
  • Ritmos desde el péndulo de mi vida. Valdepeñas: Ayuntamiento (2006)
  • Estremecido verso. Antología poética. Selected by José María Balcells. Ciudad Real: Diputación (2006)

References

  1. ^ "Sagrario Torres Calderón". Diccionario Biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Personas – Torres, Sagrario (1922-2006)". PARES. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Sagrario Torres Calderón". Diccionario Biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  4. ^ "Rescatan a las poetas que alzaron su voz en la posguerra". ABC (in Spanish). 10 March 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Sagrario Torres Calderón — Las becas de la March". Fundación Juan March (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  6. ^ "Esta espina dorsal estremecida — Sagrario Torres (author bio)". Ediciones Torremozas (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  7. ^ "Reseña de Estremecido verso (Antología poética)" (PDF). Dialnet (in Spanish). Universidad de La Rioja. 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  8. ^ "Cabañeros — Parques Nacionales (history)". Parques Nacionales (CNIG/OAPN). Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  9. ^ "Ley 33/1995, de 20 de noviembre, por la que se declara el Parque Nacional de Cabañeros". Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 20 November 1995. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  10. ^ "Sagrario Torres". Artistas de la provincia de Ciudad Real. Centro de Estudios de Castilla-La Mancha. 22 May 2017. Archived from the original on 23 December 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  11. ^ "The legacy of poet Sagrario Torres now rests in the Municipal Archive". La Tribuna de Ciudad Real (in Spanish). 12 June 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  12. ^ "Valdepeñas City Council – Official Website". www.valdepenas.es. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  13. ^ "Sagrario Torres. A life through poetry". Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
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