Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

Awarded the Prize “for works of lyrical beauty ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles the living past.”

Irish poet. Heaney was born in County Derry on April 13, 1939. He attended St. Columb’s College moved in 1957 to Queen’s University, graduating in 1961. He was then trained at St. Joseph’s College of Education. His first book appeared in 1965. In 1966 he became a lecturer at Queen University. He then taught at Carysfort College of Education until 1981. Next year, he was appointed a visiting professor at Harvard. Since 1985 he had been there as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric Oratory. Between the years 1989 1994 he held Professorship of Poetry at Oxford. Heaney died on August 30, 2013 in Dublin. 
Major Works:
Eleven Poems (1965); Norty (1975); Station Isl (1984); The Haw Lantern (1987); Joy or Night (1993); Electric Light (2001)