Ted Hughes
1930
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1998
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Pembroke College, University of Massachusetts Amherst
occupation: poet, translator, novelist, playwright, astrologer, science fiction writer, children's writer, writer
award received: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Order of Merit, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Golden Wreath, Guggenheim Fellowship, Somerset Maugham Award, T. S. Eliot Prize, Hawthornden Prize
position held: Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
influenced by: Czesław Miłosz, William Blake, John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, Arthur Schopenhauer, Robert Graves
Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death. In 2008 The Times ranked Hughes fourth on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath from 1956 until her death by suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. His last poetic work, Birthday Letters (1998), explored their relationship. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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