Pilar Paz Pasamar

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.

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).

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.

[2] In her first works, there are similarities to poems written by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rubén Darío, Antonio Machado, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Her poems evolved as she made literary friendships in her native Jerez with Juan Valencia and, above all, José Manuel Caballero Bonald,[3] who became her first poetic mentor in Madrid circles.

From 1950, coinciding with the inauguration of the Summer Courses for Foreigners in Cádiz, Paz joined the group that published the magazine Platero (1950-1954),[4] composed of Fernando Quiñones, Felipe Sordo Lamadrid, Serafín Pro Hesles, Francisco Pleguezuelo, and the painter Lorenzo Cherbuy.

Platero published collaborations of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rafael Alberti, Pedro Salinas, Vicente Aleixandre, and Gerardo Diego.

[5][6] Paz became integrated into the feminine poetic circles of Carmen Conde Abellán, Ángela Figuera, Gloria Fuertes, Concha Lagos.

The wedding, in 1957, coincided with the publication of Paz's fourth book of poems, Del abreviado mar (1957), its title a tribute to Luis de Góngora.

[11] The author, until then isolated in Cádiz, slowly returned to the literary context through three movements related to postmodernism and democracy: Andalusian literature, the boom of female writing in the 1980s, and the poetry of in the tradition of José Ramón Ripoll.