Name Frieda Hughes | Role Poet Parents Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath | |
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Full Name Frieda Rebecca Hughes Nationality British - Australian (dual citizenship) Education Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Spouse Desmond Dawe (m. 1979–1982) Siblings Nicholas Hughes, Shura Hughes Artwork After an Unwanted Phone Call, Gambling on a New Idea Grandparents Otto Plath, Aurelia Plath, William Henry Hughes, Edith Farrar Similar People | ||
Frieda hughes
Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960) 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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- Frieda hughes
- Ted hughes festival frieda hughes reads her poems
- Family and personal life
- Career
- Exhibitions
- References
Ted hughes festival frieda hughes reads her poems
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 in 1998. Her mother died by suicide when Frieda was almost three; her father died of a heart attack. Hughes's brother, Nicholas Hughes, died by suicide on 16 March 2009.
Hughes was born in London. Through their father's mother, Frieda and Nicholas are descendants of Nicholas Ferrar (1592 – 1637). 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. Her second husband was real estate agent Clive Anderson. Her third marriage, in 1996, was to Hungarian artist Laszlo Lukacs; they divorced in 2010 after a year-long separation.
Career
Hughes graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, with a BA (Hons.) in 1988.
From 2006 to 2008 she 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.
In October 2015 Hughes spoke for the first time about her father as part of the BBC Two documentary Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death.