{"id":8282,"date":"2025-03-12T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8282"},"modified":"2025-06-06T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:23:11","slug":"hugo-williams","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/hugo-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the <em>London Magazine<\/em>\u00a0from 1961 to 1970, and has since earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. His\u00a0<em>Collected Poems<\/em>,\u00a0which brings together work from eight books, including the 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize-winning <em>Billy&#8217;s Rain<\/em>,\u00a0was published in 2002. His poetry collection\u00a0<em>Dear Room<\/em> (2006) was shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Poetry Award; <em>West End Final<\/em> (2009), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2009; and <em>I Knew the Bride<\/em> (Faber &amp; Faber) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2014. Hugo Williams has since published two further collections with Faber: <em>Lines Off<\/em> (2022) and <em>Fast Music<\/em> (2024). He was awarded the Queen&#8217;s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine\u00a0from 1961 to 1970, and has since earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. His\u00a0Collected Poems,\u00a0which brings together work from eight books, including the 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Billy&#8217;s Rain,\u00a0was published in 2002. His poetry collection\u00a0Dear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8555,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8282","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}