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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 Wevill (ur. 15 maja 1927 w Berlinie, zm. 23 marca 1969 w Londynie) – była żona poety Davida Wevilla, a następnie partnerka poety Teda Hughesa [1]. Życiorys. Dzieciństwo spędziła w Berlinie i Tel Awiwie. Jej ojciec był Żydem, matka luteranką [2].
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.
2 mar 2007 · The latest addition to the endless saga of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath comes as a biography of Assia Wevill, the woman who administered the coup de grâce to the Plath/Hughes marriage when...
Assia Wevill (ur. 15 maja 1927 w Berlinie, zm. 23 marca 1969 w Londynie) – była żona poety Davida Wevilla, a następnie partnerka poety Teda Hughesa. Życiorys. Dzieciństwo spędziła w Berlinie i Tel Awiwie. Jej ojciec był Żydem, matka luteranką.
A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill. 'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of...
The excruciatingly painful end of this fascinating biography – Assia Wevill would gas herself and Shura, her daughter by Ted Hughes, to death – overshadows everything we can learn about...
