The poet has made her work a generational and moral testimony. The poet Francisca Aguirre (Alicante, 1930) has won the National Prize of Letters, bestowed by the Ministry of Culture ....

for a whole body of work. Aguirre, who already won the National Poetry Prize in 2011, has made writing a way of looking at the world, but also of maintaining an attitude of decency against the social upheavals of a particular period in recent Spanish history. Some of her books, like ‘Pavana del Desasosiego’ (1999) or ‘La Herida Absurda’ (2006), bear witness of that vocation of recounting history through poetry. Her history. Of an honest biography that has suffered the blows of the civil war, but which, transcending resentment, is handled with the delicacy of one who watches and embraces, who understands reality above all, as a shared space. Hence, the marked existential character of Aguirre’s words is in some way part of the voice of a generation: one that lived through the horrors of the civil war. This prize is recognition of a life that has moved with enormous discretion, but with the constancy and enthusiasm of one who has encoded within her poems, her way of existing in this world. Her husband, the poet and flamencologist Felix Grande (died 2014) received the same award, endowed with 40,000 euros.

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