Anne Cluysenaar
| Anne Cluysenaar | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anne Alice Andrée Cluysenaar 15 March 1936 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | 1 November 2014 (aged 78) Llantrisant, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK |
| Occupation | Poet, lecturer, writer |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | Irish |
| Education |
Trinity College, Dublin University of Edinburgh |
| Spouse | Walter Freeman Jackson |
Anne Alice Andrée Cluysenaar (15 March 1936 – 1 November 2014) was a Belgian-born poet and writer, who was a citizen of Ireland. She lived for much of her life in the UK, latterly in Wales, and published and edited several volumes of verse. She was murdered by her stepson during a family argument. She was a member of the Cluysenaar family.
Anne Cluysenaar was born in Brussels, the daughter of artist and his wife, Sybil Fitzgerald Hewat, a painter. Both her parents were of Scottish and Belgian descent. Her grandfather, painter André Cluysenaar, was the grandson of architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar.
Anne Cluysenaar moved with her family to Britain just before the start of the Second World War, and started writing poems as a child. The family lived initially in Somerset, and she was educated in boarding schools in England and Scotland, before moving to Ireland in 1950.
After her parents returned to Belgium she studied English and French Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, winning the Vice-Chancellor's prize for poetry in 1956 and graduating in 1957. She took out Irish citizenship in 1961, and her verse was published in the 1963 collection New Poets of Ireland. In 1963, she gained a diploma in general linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.
She became a lecturer in literature, linguistics, and creative writing, at various universities in England and Scotland, including Manchester (1957–58), Aberdeen (1963–65), Lancaster (1965–71), Birmingham (1973-76), and Sheffield City Polytechnic (1976–89). She also spent a period as reader to the partially sighted critic Percy Lubbock, and worked for a time at the Chester Beatty Library of Oriental Manuscripts in Dublin. From 1990 on, she taught creative writing on a part-time basis at the University of Wales, Cardiff. From the 1970s until her death, she also ran workshops in museums, galleries, schools, community centres and elsewhere.
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