Pilar Paz Pasamar

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Pilar Paz Pasamar, 2012

Pilar Paz Pasamar (13 February 1932 - 7 March 2019) was a Spanish poet and writer whose work has been translated into Italian, Arabic, French, English and Chinese. She was a member of the Cádiz branch of the 1950s poetic generation. She was a member of the Real Academia Hispano Americana de Cádiz since 1963. Her awards and honors include second place from the Premio Adonáis de Poesía for "Los buenos días" (1954), Adoptive Daughter of the city of Cádiz (2005), Meridiana Prize of the Andalusian Institute of Women (2005), included in the section "Own Names" of the Instituto Cervantes, and Author of the Year by the Andalusian Center of Letters of the Junta de Andalucía (2015). The city council of her hometown annually awards the Pilar Paz Pasamar Prize for short stories and poetry by women.

Pilar Paz Pasamar was born in Jerez de la Frontera, 13 February 1932.[1] Her father was Arturo Paz Varela, an infantry captain of Jerez. Her mother was Pilar Pasamar Mingote, a zaragozana who left the profession of lyrical singer when she married Arturo. Her siblings included Mercedes (b. 1927), Arturo (b. 1933) and Jorge Antonio (b. 1943).

After the Spanish Civil War, the family settled in Madrid, where the daughters were enrolled in the Carmelites school on Fortuny Street. But the family spent holidays in the south, where the Paz's poetic sensibility around three stimuli were developed: the lyric of oral tradition (very much alive in Lower Andalusia), the songs she heard on the radio, and the poems of Las mil mejores poesías that her mother taught her to recite.

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