Annie Freud was born in London in 1948. Her father is the painter, Lucian Freud. Her maternal grandfather was the sculptor, Sir Jacob Epstein, and her great-grandfather was Sigmund Freud. Her first publication was A Voids Officer Achieves the Tree Pose (Donut Press). Her first full collection, The Best Man That Ever Was (Picador Poetry, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and it won the Dimplex Prize for New Writing (Poetry) in the same year. Since her collection The Mirabelles was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2010, she has published further books including The Remains (2015) and Hiddensee (2021).
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