Anne Cluysenaar

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 a member of the Cluysenaar family, and 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. Her grandfather, painter André Cluysenaar, was the grandson of architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar. Anne Cluysenaar moved with her family to Britain just before the start of the Second World War, and started writing poems as a child. The family lived initially in Somerset, and she was educated in boarding schools in England and Scotland, before moving to Ireland in 1950.