Francisca Aguirre
Spanish poet and writer (1930-2019)
Francisca Aguirre Benito (27 October 1930 – 13 April 2019)[1] was a Spanish poet and author. Her first poetry collection, Ithaca (1972), won her the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award. In 2011, she won the National Poetry Prize for her poetry piece Historia de una anatomía. Aguirre also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in November 2018.[2]
Aguirre was born in Alicante. She was the daughter of noted painter Lorenzo Aguirre.[1] She was married to fellow poet Félix Grande from 1963 until his death in 2014. The couple had one daughter, poet and essayist Guadalupe Grande (born 1965).[3]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Francisca Aguirre". España es Cultura. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ↑ Lucas, Antonio (13 November 2018). "Francisca Aguirre, Premio Nacional de las Letras 2018". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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