About Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
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Awards & Honors
honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
honorary doctor of Caen University
Nobel Prize in Literature
Somerset Maugham Award
Duff Cooper Prize
Horst Bienek Award for Poetry
T. S. Eliot Prize
Forward Poetry Prize
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Lannan Literary Awards
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Irish Book Awards
Cholmondeley Award
Costa Book Awards
Griffin Poetry Prize
WH Smith Literary Award
David Cohen Prize
James Joyce Awards
Flaiano Prize
Bodley Medal
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
E. M. Forster Award
Eric Gregory Award
Golden Rose Award
Irish PEN Award
PEN Translation Prize
People of the Year Awards
Poetry Now Award
St. Louis Literary Award
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
honorary doctorate
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow
Golden Wreath
Sikkens Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
AWB Vincent Literary Award
honorary doctorate of the University of La Coruña
Cunningham Medal
Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Ulysses Medal
