Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born April 1, 1960) is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and has had many exhibitions.
Frieda 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 a British poet laureate.
Hughes was born in London. She moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1988, and later settled in Wooro...
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Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born April 1, 1960) is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and has had many exhibitions.
Frieda 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 a British poet laureate.
Hughes was born in London. 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 returned to the UK to live and work when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1997. He died in October 1998. Her only brother, Nicholas Hughes, committed suicide on 16 March 2009.
She married the Hungarian artist Laszlo Lukacs in 1996. They divorced in 2010 after a year-long separation.
Frieda Hughes graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, with a BA (Hons.) in 1988.
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