num_pages: 198
description: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year.
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: 9769
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: Faber & Faber