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Seamus Heaney

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013) · Irish poet

DescriptionIrish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
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Born1939-04-13
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BirthplaceCastledawson Castledawson
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Died2013-08-30
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Place of deathDublin Dublin
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AreaIreland
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CountryIE
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CitizenshipIreland
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Occupationauthor actor linguist translator poet playwright university teacher writer
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Genrespoetry
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Member ofAmerican Philosophical Society The Belfast Group Aosdána Royal Society of Literature Royal Irish Academy Academia Europaea American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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AwardsE. M. Forster Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Poetry Now Award Griffin Poetry Prize People of the Year Awards St. Louis Literary Award Sikkens Prize Lannan Literary Awards Eric Gregory Award Irish PEN Award honorary doctor of Caen University WH Smith Literary Award Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Costa Book Awards Bodley Medal AWB Vincent Literary Award Duff Cooper Prize Ulysses Medal Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres James Joyce Awards Flaiano Prize Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism Golden Wreath T. S. Eliot Prize David Cohen Prize Irish Book Awards Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow Golden Rose Award Forward Poetry Prize Cholmondeley Award Cunningham Medal honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Somerset Maugham Award Nobel Prize in Literature honorary doctorate honorary doctorate of the University of La Coruña Horst Bienek Award for Poetry PEN Translation Prize
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Also known as

Estate Of Seamus Heaney S. Heaney Séamus Heaney Séamus Heany

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