Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams was born in Windsor in 1942. He was the eldest son of the actor/dramatists Hugh Williams and his second wife Margaret Vyner. His younger siblings are the actor Simon Williams and the late actress and model Polly Williams, who married the actor Nigel Havers. Hugo was educated at Eton College and worked as an editor of the 'London Magazine' until 1970. He has since made a living as a travel writer and journalist. He has also worked as a television and theatre critic, a poetry editor and has written a column for 'The Times Literary Supplement' since 1988. He has written several collections of poetry. His collection "Billy's Rain" (1999) won the T.S. Elliot Medal for poetry in June 2004 and he is renowned as his country's wittiest poet. He lives in Islington with his wife Hermine Demoriane. They have a daughter Murphy and a granddaughter Silver.