Frieda Hughes

Frieda Hughes
Born Frieda Rebecca Hughes
(1960-04-01) 1 April 1960
London, England
Nationality British - Australian (dual citizenship)
Education Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Known for Painting, Poetry

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

Family and personal life

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 the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death. Her mother died by suicide when Frieda was almost three; her father died of myocardial infarction in 1998. Hughes's brother, Nicholas Hughes, died by suicide on 16 March 2009.[2]

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 became an Australian citizen in 1992.

Hughes was married to farmworker Desmond Dawe from 1979 to 1982.[3] Her second husband was real estate agent Clive Anderson. Thirdly, she married Hungarian artist Laszlo Lukacs in 1996; they divorced in 2010 after a year-long separation.[4]

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 programme on BBC Radio 3.[5]

In October 2015 Hughes spoke for the first time about her father as part of the BBC Two documentary Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death.[6]

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. 1 2 3 "Frieda". Frieda Hughes.com. 18 August 2010. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010.
  2. ↑ "Tragic poet Sylvia Plath's son kills himself". CNN. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  3. ↑ "Frieda Hughes Escapes the Shadow of Mom Sylvia Plath". People. 4 December 1989. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "Frieda Hughes stays 'positive' after third divorce". The Telegraph. 6 March 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  5. ↑ BBC Radio 3
  6. ↑ "BBC Two - Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death". Bbc.co.uk. 10 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.

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