Francisca Aguirre


Francisca Aguirre Benito was a Spanish poet and author. Her first poetry collection, Ithaca, published in 1972, won her the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award. In 2011, she won the National Poetry Award for her poetry piece Historia de una anatomía. Aguirre also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in November 2018.

Biography

Aguirre was born in Alicante, the daughter of noted painter Lorenzo Aguirre. 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. She was an aunt of poet Carlos Martínez Aguirre.
Aguirre died in Madrid on 13 April 2019, at the age of 88.

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