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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. ==Life and career== Anne Cluysenaar was born in Brussels,〔 the daughter of artist John Cluysenaar and his wife, Sybil Fitzgerald Hewat, a painter. Both her parents were of Scottish and Belgian descent.〔( Meic Stephens, "Obituary: Anne Cluysenaar", ''The Independent'' ); retrieved 14 November 2014.〕 Her grandfather, painter André Cluysenaar, was the grandson of architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar.〔("Le Musée Charlier rend hommage aux Cluysenaar, famille de cinq générations d'artistes" ), rtbf.be, 3 November 2014; retrieved 7 November 2014.〕 Anne Cluysenaar moved with her family to Britain just before the start of the Second World War, and started writing poems as a child.〔(Anne Cluysenaar, ''SerenBooks.com'' ). Retrieved 7 November 2014〕 The family lived initially in Somerset, and she was educated in boarding schools in England and Scotland,〔 before moving to Ireland in 1950.〔Francesca Gillett, ("Woman whose death is at centre of murder probe was Usk poet" ), ''South Wales Argus'', 3 November 2014; retrieved 7 November 2014.〕 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,〔( Cluysenaar, Anne ''Encyclopedia.com'' ). Retrieved 7 November 2014〕〔( Interview by Lidia Vianu ), January 2006; retrieved 7 November 2014.〕〔( Anne Cluysenaar profile ), Carcanet.co.uk; retrieved 7 November 2014.〕 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.〔〔 She established two literary magazines, ''Scintilla'' and ''Sheaf'', and published more than a dozen volumes of her own verse, including ''A Fan of Shadows'' (1967), ''Nodes'' (1969), ''Double Helix'' (1982), ''Timeslips'' (1997), ''Batu-Angas: Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace'' (2008), ''Water to Breathe'' (2009), and ''Touching Distances: Diary Poems'' (2014).〔〔(Anne Cluysenaar, ''Modern Poetry in Translation'' ); retrieved 7 November 2014.〕〔〔(''Touching Distances'' ), CinnamonPress.com, 7 November 2014; accessed 15 November 2014.〕 Her poems appeared in several anthologies. She was Chair of the Verbal Arts Association between 1983 and 1986, and was active in the Poetry Society.〔 She co-founded the Usk Valley Vaughan Association, and edited '' The Selected Poems of Henry Vaughan''.〔〔〔 In 2001 she was elected as a Fellow of the Welsh Academy.〔〔(Profile ), LiteratureWales.org; retrieved 7 November 2014.〕 She wrote the scripts for two son-et-lumière shows, ''Echoes in Stone'' and ''Footsteps on the Sands of Time'' performed at Tintern Abbey and Caldicot Castle respectively, and contributed verse as part of Chepstow's regeneration scheme, engraved on paving and walls in the town centre in 2005.〔 In later years she ran a smallholding at Little Wentwood Farm near Llantrisant, Monmouthshire, the home she shared with her husband, Walter Freeman Jackson;〔 who she married in 1976.〔(''International Who's Who in Poetry 2005'' ), books.google.co.uk, pg. 319; accessed 15 November 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Cluysenaar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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