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Assia Esther Wevill, nata Gutmann (Berlino, 15 maggio 1927 – Londra, 23 marzo 1969) nacque a Berlino, da una famiglia di origine tedesca, russa ed ebrea. È famosa soprattutto per la sua relazione amorosa col poeta inglese Ted Hughes
Assia Esther Wevill ( née Gutmann; 15 May 1927 – 23 March 1969) was a German-Jewish woman who escaped the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, via Italy, then later England, where she had an affair with the English poet Ted Hughes.
Assia Esther Wevill was a Jewish poet and literary translator born in Berlin, Germany. She published poetry under her maiden name, Assia Gutmann, and she translated the Hebrew poetry of...
Assia Esther Wevill was a Jewish poet and literary translator born in Berlin, Germany. She published poetry under her maiden name, Assia Gutmann, and she translated the Hebrew poetry of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai into English.
Assia Wevill was a beautiful and intelligent woman who had affairs with Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, and who killed herself and her daughter with gas. This biography by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev explores her complex and painful story, and her role in the lives of great poets.
- Lesley Mcdowell
27 lug 2022 · Increasingly known as more than Ted Hughes’s girlfriend or Sylvia Plath’s rival, Assia Wevill emerges as an important conduit for literary production in the mid-twentieth century.
9 nov 2022 · Emily Van Duyne visits the wooded path and the manor home where Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill lived and died, and reflects on their tragic story and its connection to Sylvia Plath. She also shares Wevill's unofficial will and her epitaph as a "lover of unreason and an exile".
