She has received the Andalusian Journalism Award, and in July 2019 she was appointed director of the Centro Andaluz de las Letras [es] (CAL).
In 2006, the Lara Foundation published her Hijos del Mediodía, which won RTVA's El Público Radio and Televisión Award for Andalusian Culture.
[9] In 2017 she published the novel El color de los ángeles about Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
In non-fiction, Díaz is known for her essays La Andalucía del exilio (2008) and Travesías históricas: viajeros que contaron el mundo (2017), as well as the literary guide Sevilla, un retrato literario (2011).
[10] In 2018 she won the Andalusian Journalism Award for "Google time", a series of cultural articles published in the magazine Andalucía en la Historia.