Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIA (13 Aprile 1939 – 30 August 2013) wis an Erse poet, playwright, translator an lecturer, an the recipient o the 1995 Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.[1][2]

Seamus Heaney
MRIA
Seamus Heaney (2009)
Born13 Apryle 1939(1939-04-13)
Castledawson, Coonty Lunnonderry, Northren Ireland
Dee'd30 August 2013(2013-08-30) (aged 74)
Dublin, Republic o Ireland
ThriftPoet, playwricht, translator
Period1966–2013
Notable warks
  • Death of a Naturalist (1966)
  • Field Work (1979)
  • The Spirit Level (1996)
  • Beowulf (translation, 1999)
  • District and Circle (2006)
  • Human Chain (2010)
Notable awairds
  • Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, 1968
  • E. M. Forster Awaird, 1975
  • Nobel Prize in Leeteratur, 1995
  • Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, 1996
  • Saoi of Aosdána, 1997
  • Golden Wreath o Poetry, 2001
  • T. S. Eliot Prize, 2006
  • The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recogneetion Awaird, 2012
SpooseMarie Devlin (1965–2013)[1][2]
Bairns
  • Michael
  • Christopher
  • Catherine Ann[1][2]

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