Annie Freud born is an English poet and artist. She is the eldest child of the artist Lucian Freud , [1] and his first wife Kitty Garman. Freud's childhood has been described as being bohemian and very much within her father's circle. Many felt it was reprehensible, if not downright immoral.

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The poet talks about being a late starter, growing up in grand bohemian circles and her amazingly harmonious extended family. Annie Freud lives on a smallholding in Dorset with a dog, sheep, chickens and her second husband Dave, a retired electrical engineer she met on the internet, who took her on a first date to Hackney City Farm in east London. Last year she was by far the oldest of the latest batch of Next Generation Poets , selected from writers who have published their debut collection in the previous 10 years. The new book, which includes her own colour illustrations of landscapes, plants and fish, was inspired in part by objects dug up in her garden, but also reflects on recent bereavements: starting in May Freud lost her stepfather, mother and father within 16 months.
It was just before midnight in London in the spring of when the telephone rang unexpectedly. For some weason my fwiend Jacob Wothschild wants me to speak wiz you. I can come to see you eizer veh-we uh-we or veh-we wate. This is one of the rarest calls a writer can receive. And an exhibition of early Freud paintings, drawings, and prints, from to , is being held at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York from November 23 to December At various times, this most un-Freudian Freud has been an avid womanizer, absentee father, rival sibling, inveterate gambler, phobic nonflier, and bearer of a curious persecution complex. He is also brilliant, charismatic, thoughtful, and devilishly charming when he chooses to be.
He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in to escape the rise of Nazism. From to he attended Goldsmiths College , London.