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Active 1999–present · Awards: King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Order of Merit, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Golden Wreath, Guggenheim Fellowship, Somerset Maugham Award
Edward James Hughes was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.