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Seamus Heaney won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award twice. Firstly, for The Spirit Level in 1996, then again for Beowulf in 2000. Other literary awards won by Seamus Heaney include the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Irish Book Award, the Griffin Prize Lifetime Recognition Award in 2012.
Sep 10, 2020 · By Roy Foster September 10, 2020. On Seamus Heaney. Available in 3 editions. The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in ...
Aug 30, 2013 · Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said the death of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney today has brought a "great sorrow to Ireland" and only the poet himself could describe the depth of his loss to the nation ...
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland in 1939. At the age of 12, he won a scholarship to a Catholic boarding school, and it was there he received news of the death of his young ...
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) is one of the world’s best-known poets. His work also includes literary criticism and translation, and he held prestigious teaching positions in the UK and the USA ...
Born in Ireland in 1939, Seamus Heaney was the author of numerous poetry collections, including Human Chain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). He split his time between Dublin, Ireland, and Boston, where he taught at Harvard University for many years. In 1995, Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
For Mary Heaney. I. Sunlight. There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed. in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall. of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove. sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a ...
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