Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (English: Seamus Heaney, April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013), Irish poet, playwright and translator. In 1995, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poems that "have a lyrical beauty and ethical depth that sublimate the wonders of everyday life and the living past." In the early 1960s, after graduating from Queen's University Belfast, he became a lecturer there and began publishing poetry. In his later years he lived in Sandymount, Dublin. Died on August 30, 2013. Heaney was a professor at Harvard University from 1981 to 1997 and poet-in-residence from 1988 to 2006. He was also professor of poetry at Oxford University from 1989 to 1994 and received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996. He has also received other awards such as the Jeffrey Faber Memorial Award (1968), the E.M. Foster Award (1975), etc. His literary works are preserved in the National Library of Ireland.