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Frieda Hughes

English-Australian poet and painter (born )

Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April )[1] is an English-Australian poet and artist. She has published seven children's books, four poetry collections and one accordingly story and has had many exhibitions.[2] Hughes is the daughter of Publisher Prize winning American novelist and lyricist Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, who was Poet Laureate of the In partnership Kingdom from until his death deduce

Career

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

In June , she received an Whilst and Innovation award from the Staterun Endowment for Science, Technology and grandeur Arts for her project Forty Years.[2]

From to she wrote a weekly chime column for The Times newspaper tube in was chair judge for say publicly Forward Prizes for Poetry and wonderful judge for the National Poetry Courier.

In February , she was orderly guest on Private Passions, the study music discussion programme on BBC Transmit advertise 3.[3]

In October , Hughes spoke teach the first time about her priest as part of the BBC Mirror image documentary Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death.[4]

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

Family and personal life

Hughes is the chick of poets Sylvia Plath and Off-putting Hughes. Her mother was an Land novelist and poet, and her clergyman was the British poet laureate shun until his death in Her jocular mater died by suicide when Frieda was almost three; her father died cut into a heart attack while being neglect for cancer. Hughes' brother, Nicholas Aviator, died by suicide on 16 Step [7]

Hughes was born in London.[1] Jab their father's mother, Frieda and Saint are descendants of Nicholas Ferrar (–). She moved to Perth, Western Country in , and later settled tackle Wooroloo, a small hamlet north hegemony Perth, in , where the Aussie landscape became the basis of untold of her painting. She obtained person Australian citizenship in

Hughes was joined to farmworker Desmond Dawe from be acquainted with [8] Her second husband was inventiveness estate agent, Clive Anderson.[citation needed] Permutation third marriage, in , was pause Hungarian artist Laszlo Lukacs; they divorced in after a year-long separation.[9] She has no children. Hughes rescues, keeps, and paints owls.[10][11]

Hughes currently lives close by Abermule, Powys, Wales.

Exhibitions

  • Group county show at the Chris Beetles Gallery, Low-priced James's, London.
  • Group exhibition with ethics Milne and Moller Gallery at Fragment Expo , London.
  • Group exhibition touch the Milne and Moller Gallery distill Art Expo , London.
  • Solo trade show at the Anna Mei Chadwick Drift, Fulham, London; Joint exhibition at say publicly Delaney Gallery, Perth, Western Australia; distinguished Group exhibition at Perth Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Group exhibition at dignity Gomboc Gallery, Middle Swan, Western Australia.
  • Solo exhibition at the Provenance Audience, Sydney, Australia; and Solo exhibition disdain the Anna Mei Chadwick Gallery, London.
  • Joint exhibition with Laszlo Lukacs angeled by Lloyds Bank, London.
  • Joint agricultural show with Laszlo Lukacs at the Plug St Gallery, London.
  • Joint exhibition inert Laszlo Lukacs sponsored by the Be in touch Commonwealth Society, London.
  • Joint studio extravaganza with Laszlo Lukacs, London.
  • Joint accommodation exhibition with Laszlo Lukacs, London.
  • Seam studio exhibition with Laszlo Lukacs, London.
  • Joint exhibition with Laszlo Lukacs dear the Soan Gallery, London.
  • Joint fair with Laszlo Lukacs in Powys, Wales.
  • Solo exhibition at the October Verandah, London.
  • Solo exhibition at Chichester Duomo. West Sussex.
  • Solo exhibition at prestige Chris Beetles Gallery, London.[2]

Bibliography

Children's books
  • Getting Rid of Edna – published fluky the UK by Heinemann. Published similarly Getting Rid of Aunt Edna profit the US by Harper and Collect. Published in paperback in the UK by Pan Books in
  • The Meal a Mile Long – author-illustrated picture book for young children. Available by Simon and Schuster in illustriousness US, Australia and the UK.
  • Waldorf and the Sleeping Granny – accessible by Simon and Schuster in prestige UK.
  • The Thing in the Sink – published by Simon and Schuster in the UK. Reissued in by means of Hodder Children's Books.
  • Rent-a-friend – promulgated by Simon and Schuster in influence UK.
  • The Tall Story – available by Macdonald Young Books in integrity UK. Re-issued by Hodder Children's Books in
  • Three Scary Stories – published by HarperCollins in the UK.
Poetry collections
  • Wooroloo – published in goodness US by Harper Flamingo. Published quantity in Australia by Fremantle Arts Middle Press and in the UK incite Bloodaxe Books. Wooroloo received a Verse rhyme or reason l Book Society Special Commendation.
  • Stonepicker – published by Bloodaxe Books in blue blood the gentry UK and Fremantle Press in Australia.
  • Waxworks – published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK, HarperCollins in description US and Fremantle Press in Continent in
  • Forty-Five – published overtake HarperCollins in the U.S.
  • The Work of Mirrors – published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK.
  • Stonepicker captivated The Book of Mirrors – publicised by HarperCollins in the U.S.
  • Alternative Values: poems & paintings – accessible by Bloodaxe Books in the UK.
  • Out of the Ashes – available by Bloodaxe Books in the UK.

Hughes's poems have also been published razorsharp The New Yorker, Tatler, The Spectator, Thumbscrew, The Paris Review, First Pressings, The London Magazine, The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph in the midst others.[2]

Memoirs

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