Assia Wevill

Assia Esther Wevill was a Jewish poet and literary translator born in Berlin, Germany. She published poetry under her maiden name, Assia Gutmann, and she translated the Hebrew poetry of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai into English. Her work is published in The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill (LSU Press, 2021), edited by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter K. Steinberg.

Wevill emigrated from Berlin to British Palestine with her family in the 1930s to escape the rise of Nazism. In the early 1960s, Wevill and British poet Ted Hughes had a relationship, which contributed to Hughes’s separation from his then-wife, American poet Sylvia Plath.