Frieda Hughes

Frieda Hughes

Elevation, 50.5cm x 40.5cm
Birth name Frieda Rebecca Hughes
Born 1 April 1960 (1960-04-01) (age 51)
London, England
Nationality British
Field Painting, Poetry
Training Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born April 1, 1960[1]) is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and has had many exhibitions.

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Early life

Frieda Hughes is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was one of the most influential poets of the century and her father was a British poet laureate.

Hughes was born in London.[1] She moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1988, and later settled in Wooroloo, a small hamlet north of Perth, in 1991, where the Australian landscape became the basis of much of her painting. She returned to the UK to live and work when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1997. He died in October 1998. Her only brother, Nicholas Hughes, committed suicide on 16 March 2009.[2]

She married the Hungarian artist Laszlo Lukacs in 1996. They divorced in 2010 after a year-long separation.[3]

Career

Frieda Hughes graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, with a BA (Hons.) in 1988.[1]

From 2006 to 2008 Frieda Hughes wrote a weekly poetry column for The Times newspaper and in 2008 was chair judge for the Forward Prizes for poetry and a judge for the National Poetry competition.

In February 2010 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion program on BBC Radio 3.[4]

Exhibitions

Bibliography

Children's books
Poetry Collections

Frieda Hughes's poems have also been published in The New Yorker, Tatler, The Spectator, Thumbscrew, The Paris Review, First Pressings, The London Magazine, The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph among others.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Frieda". Frieda Hughes.com. 16 July 2010. http://www.friedahughes.com/frieda.cfm. 
  2. ^ "Tragic poet Sylvia Plath's son kills himself". CNN. March 23, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/03/23/plath.son.suicide/index.html. Retrieved July 16, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Frieda Hughes stays 'positive' after third divorce". The Telegraph. 6 March 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7386183/Frieda-Hughes-stays-positive-after-third-divorce.html. Retrieved 16 July 2010. 
  4. ^ BBC Radio 3

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