Esther Freud Esther Freud Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist. Born in London, Freud is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and Bernardine Coverley. She is also a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and niece of Clement Freud. She travelled extensively with her mother as a child, and returned to London at the age of 16 to train as an actress at The Drama Centre. She has worked in television and theatre as both actress and writer. Her first credited television appearance, though inauspicious, was as a terrified diner in "The Bill" in 1984, running frantically out of a
Sigmund Freud Prize (2000), Klaus Heinrich (2002), and most recently, Peter Sloterdijk (2005). Sigmund Freud Prize The Sigmund Freud Prize or Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose (German "Sigmund Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa") is a German literary award named after Sigmund Freud and awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. It was first awarded in 1964. In 1967, the Sigmund Freud Prize was awarded for the first time to a philosopher, Hannah Arendt. To date, ten of its recipients were philosophers writing in the German language, among them Hannah Arendt (1967), Ernst Bloch (1975), Jürgen Habermas (1976), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1979), Hans