ARTS AND CULTURE

Polly Samson

Writer

British novelist, lyricist, and journalist Polly Samson is the author of several well-regarded works, including "Perfect Lives" and "The Kindness." Married to former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, Samson caused a social media storm in 2023 when she accused her husband's estranged bandmate, Roger Waters, of antisemitism. "You are antisemitic to your rotten core," she told Waters, an active backer of the BDS movement targeting Israel and vocal supporter of the Russian regime, in a social media post. "Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense." The post drew applause across social media, not least from Gilmour himself, who retweeted it. (Photo: Wikimedia / Creative Commons License)