Author
Seamus Heaney
April 13, 1939 – August 30, 2013 · Ireland
Playwright, Translator, Linguist, Poet, Writer, University teacher, Actor, Author
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
9
Peak rank
#8
Biography
- Born
- April 13, 1939 · Castledawson
- Died
- August 30, 2013 · Dublin
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Education
- St Columb's College, Queen's University Belfast, Bates College
Awards & Honours
- 1966Eric Gregory Award
- 1967Cholmondeley Award
- 1968Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
- 1968Somerset Maugham Award
- 1973AWB Vincent Literary Award
- 1975E. M. Forster Award
- 1975Duff Cooper Prize
- 1976WH Smith Literary Award
- 1984honorary doctorate
- 1985PEN Translation Prize
- 1987Costa Book Awards
- 1989People of the Year Awards
- 1990Lannan Literary Awards
- 1991Sikkens Prize
- 1994Horst Bienek Award for Poetry
- 1995Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1995Flaiano Prize
- 1996Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- 1996Costa Book Awards
- 1996honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
- 1997Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
- 1998St. Louis Literary Award
- 1999Costa Book Awards
- 2000honorary doctor of Caen University
- 2001Golden Wreath
- 2003Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
- 2004Bodley Medal
- 2005Irish PEN Award
- 2006T. S. Eliot Prize
- 2007Poetry Now Award
- 2008Cunningham Medal
- 2009David Cohen Prize
- 2010Forward Poetry Prize
- 2011Ulysses Medal
- 2011Poetry Now Award
- 2011Irish Book Awards
- 2012Griffin Poetry Prize
- 2012AWB Vincent Literary Award
- James Joyce Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- honorary doctorate of the University of La Coruña
- Golden Rose Award
- honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow
- Member of the Royal Irish Academy
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