Francisca Aguirre

Francisca Aguirre Benito (27 October 1930 – 13 April 2019)[1] was a Spanish poet and author. Her first poetry collection, Ithaca, published in 1972, won her the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award.[2] In 2011, she won the National Poetry Prize for her poetry piece Historia de una anatomía.[3] Aguirre also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in November 2018.[4]

Francisca Aguirre
Aguirre in March 2019
Born(1930-10-27)27 October 1930
Alicante, Spain
Died13 April 2019(2019-04-13) (aged 88)
Madrid, Spain
NationalitySpanish
OccupationPoet and writer
Parent(s)Lorenzo Aguirre

Biography

Aguirre was born in Alicante, the daughter of noted painter Lorenzo Aguirre.[1] She was married to fellow poet Félix Grande from 1963 until his death in 2014. Aguirre and Grande had a daughter, poet and essayist Guadalupe Grande (born 1965).[5]

Aguirre died in Madrid on 13 April 2019, at the age of 88.[6]

Awards
  • Leopoldo Panero Award , 1971
  • City of Irún Award , 1976
  • Galiana Award, 1994
  • Esquío Award, 1995
  • Prize Maria Isabel Fernandez Simal , 1998
  • Valencian Critic Award for his entire work, 2001
  • Alfons el Magnànim Award, 2007
  • Poetry Prize "Real Sitio and Villa de Aranjuez" 2009
  • Miguel Hernández International Award, 2010
  • National Poetry Prize , 2011.[7]
  • Favorite Daughter of Alicante in 2012.
  • National Prize for Spanish Letters , 2018.[8]

References
  1. "Francisca Aguirre". España es Cultura. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  2. "Francisca Aguirre". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  3. Rodríguez Marcos, Javier (17 November 2011). "La alicantina Francisca Aguirre, Premio Nacional de Poesía". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  4. Lucas, Antonio (13 November 2018). "Francisca Aguirre, Premio Nacional de las Letras 2018". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  5. Rodríguez Marcos, Javier (30 January 2014). "Adiós a Félix Grande: Caeré diciendo que era buena la vida". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  6. Rico, Manuel (14 April 2019). "Muere a los 88 años Francisca Aguirre, poeta de la desolación y la lucidez". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  7. MARCOS, JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ (2011-11-17). "La alicantina Francisca Aguirre, Premio Nacional de Poesía". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  8. Cultura, elDiarioes (2018-11-13). "Francisca Aguirre recibe el Premio de las Letras Españolas". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-20.
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