What is Francisca Aguirre?
[[File:Francisca Aguirre en XX Bilbao Poesía.jpg|thumb|210px|Aguirre in March 2019]] '''Francisca Aguirre Benito''' (27 October 1930 – 13 April 2019)<ref name=SpainisCulture>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/francisca_aguirre.html|title=Francisca Aguirre|website=España es Cultura|access-date=16 April 2019|archive-date=16 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416123607/http://www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/francisca_aguirre.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a [[Spanish people|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 [[Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas|National Prize for Spanish Literature]] in November 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/literatura/2018/11/13/5beacfede5fdeae6648b45bc.html|title=Francisca Aguirre, Premio Nacional de las Letras 2018|newspaper=[[El Mundo]]|lang=es|first1=Antonio|last1=Lucas|date=13 November 2018|access-date=16 April 2019}}</ref> Aguirre was born in [[Alicante]]. She was the daughter of noted painter [[Lorenzo Aguirre]].<ref name=SpainisCulture/> 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).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2014/01/30/actualidad/1391073303_152668.html|title=Adiós a Félix Grande: Caeré diciendo que era buena la vida|newspaper=[[El País]]|location=Madrid|lang=es|first1=Javier|last1=Rodríguez Marcos|date=30 January 2014|access-date=16 April 2019}}</ref> Aguirre died in [[Madrid]] on 13 April 2019. She was 88.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/04/13/actualidad/1555176519_736697.html|title=Muere a los 88 años Francisca Aguirre, poeta de la desolación y la lucidez|newspaper=El País|location=Madrid|lang=es|first1=Manuel|last1=Rico|date=14 April