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Francisca Aguirre Benito (27 October 1930 – 13 April 2019) 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 (born 1965). She was an aunt of poet Carlos Martínez Aguirre.
Aguirre died in Madrid on 13 April 2019, at the age of 88.




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 Award, 2011.
Favorite Daughter of Alicante in 2012.
National Prize for Spanish Letters , 2018.




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