Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams (born 1942) is a British poet, journalist and travel writer. His full name is Hugh Mordaunt Vyner Williams He is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s. His brother is the actor Simon Williams, and his sister Polly was married to the actor Nigel Havers until her death from cancer at the age of 54.

Williams attended Eton College. He is a regular contributor to the "Freelance" column in the"Times Literary Supplement" and is poetry editor for the Spectator.

Williams has been poetry editor and TV critc for the New Statesman, theatre critic for the Sunday Correspondent, film critic for Harper's & Queen and a writer on popular music for Punch magazine. [ [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02C22L165112627043] British Council biographical entry, accessed January 22, 2007]

Williams is married to singer, writer and tightrope-walker Hermine Demoriane. They have a daughter together, Murphy Williams, who is also a writer and columnist."'

Works

Poetry

*"Symptoms of Loss: Poems," Oxford University Press, 1965
*"Sugar Daddy," Oxford University Press, 1970
*"Some Sweet Day," Oxford University Press, 1975
*"Love-Life" (with drawings by Jessica Gwynne), André Deutsch, 1979
*"Writing Home," Oxford University Press, 1985
*"Selected Poems," Oxford University Press, 1989
*"Self-Portrait with a Slide," Oxford University Press, 1990
*"Dock Leaves," Faber and Faber, 1994
*"Penguin Modern Poets 11," (Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams) Penguin, 1997
*"Billy's Rain," Faber and Faber, 1999
*"Curtain Call: 101 Portraits in Verse," (editor) Faber and Faber, 2001
*"Collected Poems," Faber and Faber, 2002
*"Dear Room, "Faber and Faber 2006

Other

This list may also include some poetry books:
*"All the Time in the World," Ross, 1966
*"No Particular Place to Go," Cape, 1981
*"Freelancing: Adventures of a Poet," Faber and Faber, 1995
*"Some RB and Black Pop," Greville Press, 1998

Prizes

* 1966 Eric Gregory Award
* 1971 Cholmondeley Award
* 1975 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for "Some Sweet Day"
* 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize for "Billy's Rain"
* 2004 Queen's Medal for Poetry
* 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist for "Dear Room"
* 2007 Costa Book Award Shortlist for "Dear Room"

Notes

External links

* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02C22L165112627043 British Council biographical entry]
* [http://www.qualm.co.uk/mainpr.html#hwilliams2 Poems, in "Qualm"]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/tls_selections/commentary/article2305743.ece "Freelance"] : an essay by Hugo Williams from [http://www.the-tls.co.uk TLS] , June 21 2006.