num_pages: 198
description: A collection of poems addressed to Hughes' late wife, poetess Sylvia Plath, dealing with the psychological breakdown that led to some of her greatest poems and her untimely death
language: English
title: Birthday Letters
titlecomplete: Birthday Letters
characters: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes
genres: Biography, Poetry, British Literature, English Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, Autobiography, 20th Century
ratings_count: 9768
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Poetry and Book of the Year, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Forward Prize
category: Best Collection, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux