Francisca Aguirre

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.