Frieda Hughes Explained

Frieda Hughes
Birth Name:Frieda Rebecca Hughes
Birth Date:1 April 1960
Birth Place:London, England
Nationality:British – Australian (dual citizenship)
Field:Painting, poetry
Training:Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Spouse:
    Parents:Ted Hughes
    Sylvia Plath

    Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960)[1] is an English-Australian poet and painter. She has published seven children's books, four poetry collections and one short story and has had many exhibitions.[2] Hughes is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist and poet Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1984 until his death in 1998.

    Career

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

    In June 2002, she received an Invention and Innovation award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts for her project Forty Years.

    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.[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.[4]

    In April 2023, Hughes appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Saturday Live speaking about her book George about her rescue of a magpie chick.[5] [6]

    Family and personal life

    Hughes is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was an American novelist and poet, 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 while being treated for cancer. Hughes' brother, Nicholas Hughes, died by suicide on 16 March 2009.[7]

    Hughes was born in London.[1] 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 obtained dual Australian citizenship in 1992.

    Hughes was married to farmworker Desmond Dawe from 1979 to 1982.[8] Her second husband was an estate agent, Clive Anderson. Her third marriage, in 1996, was to Hungarian artist Laszlo Lukacs; they divorced in 2010 after a year-long separation.[9] She has no children. Hughes rescues, keeps, and paints owls.[10] [11]

    Hughes currently lives near Abermule, Powys, Wales.

    Exhibitions

    Bibliography

    Children's books
    Poetry collections

    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.

    Memoirs

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Frieda . Frieda Hughes.com . 18 August 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100818140919/http://www.friedahughes.com/frieda.cfm . 18 August 2010 .
    2. Web site: Frieda Hughes. 2020-06-05. www.friedahughes.com. 6 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201106034130/https://www.friedahughes.com/about.html. dead.
    3. Web site: BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions. 2021-12-13. BBC. en-GB.
    4. Web site: BBC Two – Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death . Bbc.co.uk . 10 October 2015 . 10 October 2015.
    5. News: 'I was his surrogate mother who happened to double as a tree': How Frieda Hughes fell for a magpie chick | Autobiography and memoir . The Guardian . 16 April 2023. 2023-04-29 . Hughes . Frieda .
    6. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, Chris van Tulleken, Frieda Hughes, Gary Andrews, Alex Jones . Bbc.co.uk . 2023-04-29.
    7. News: Tragic poet Sylvia Plath's son kills himself . CNN . 23 March 2009 . 26 July 2010.
    8. News: Frieda Hughes Escapes the Shadow of Mom Sylvia Plath . People . 4 December 1989 . 7 July 2012.
    9. News: Frieda Hughes stays 'positive' after third divorce. https://web.archive.org/web/20100310090730/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7386183/Frieda-Hughes-stays-positive-after-third-divorce.html . dead . 10 March 2010 . The Telegraph . 6 March 2010 . 16 July 2010.
    10. Dr. Sandman . SandmanSimonds . 1482402640906620932 . 15 January 2022 . When your research leads you to the fact that Sylvia Plath's daughter keeps 14 pet owls https://t.co/0U4WEHkdYL . en . 28 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220125193353/https://twitter.com/sandmansimonds/status/1482402640906620932 . 25 January 2022 . live.
    11. Web site: Frieda Hughes on Instagram: "Fabulous first night last night, two more Private Views to go! #friedahughes #friedahughesartist #painter #contemporaryart #figurativeart #figurativepainting #abstractart #abstractpainting #chrisbeetlesgallery" .
    12. News: Hughes . Frieda . 2023-04-16 . 'I was his surrogate mother who happened to double as a tree': How Frieda Hughes fell for a magpie chick . en-GB . The Observer . 2023-05-05 . 0029-7712.

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