Awards

• Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1998
• Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1998.
• Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1997.
• Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1998
• Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1998.
• Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 1997.
• Winner of Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 1997.

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Brilliantly succeeds at bringing Ovid's passionate and disturbing stories to life. --James Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review One of the few unquestionable successes in the revolutionary vein Pound opened at the start of the century. --Donald Lyons, The Wall Street Journal Hughes is as broad as Ovid and as subtle, as violent and as erotic, as elegant and as folksy-and often all at the same time. It is simply a beautiful match. --Michael Hofmann, The Times (London)

Brilliantly succeeds at bringing Ovid's passionate and disturbing stories to life. --James Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review One of the few unquestionable successes in the revolutionary vein Pound opened at the start of the century. --Donald Lyons, The Wall Street Journal Hughes is as broad as Ovid and as subtle, as violent and as erotic, as elegant and as folksy-and often all at the same time. It is simply a beautiful match. --Michael Hofmann, The Times (London)

Hughes' translation of 24 selections form Ovid is not merely a translation of the original Latin text, it is a translation of its spirit, namely passion. Hughes's bold, active language brings Ovid's world of imperious, tragic Odione, the ascetic, obsessive Pygmalion and a host of other classical characters to life. It is a lively, reckless adventure that restores drama and magic, too often missing from translations, to these classical tales. (Kirkus UK)

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Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school.In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios.In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998.Ted Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Fabe

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