Seamus Heaney has won numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award (1968), the Denis Devlin Award (1973), the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (1975), the American Irish Foundation Literary Award (1973) and the W H Smith Annual Award (1976). In 1987 he was awarded the Whitbread Poetry Award for The Haw Lantern.
From 1989 to 1994 Seamus Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A collection of his Oxford Poetry Lectures entitled The edress of Poetry Lanternwas published by Faber and Faber in September 1995. November 1995 saw the publication of his co-translation of Laments, a moving Polish Classic of the sixteenth century by Jan Kochanowski.
The Spirit Level, his first new collection of poems for five years, was published in May 1996. In 1997 The School Bag was published, a companion volume to The Rattle Bag, co-edited with Ted Hughes.
1999 saw the publication of his translation of Beowulf, which went on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year prize. His most recent collection of poetry, Electric Light, was published by Faber in April 2001.
In 2002, Faber published a selection of his prose, Finders Keepers, and in 2004 his translation of Sophocles' Antigone, Burial at Thebes. His new collection District and Circlewill be published in April 2006.
In 1965 he married Marie Devlin and they have three children. He is currently the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence at Harvard University where he goes to teach for 6 weeks every two years.
In October 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
From 1989 to 1994 Seamus Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A collection of his Oxford Poetry Lectures entitled The edress of Poetry Lanternwas published by Faber and Faber in September 1995. November 1995 saw the publication of his co-translation of Laments, a moving Polish Classic of the sixteenth century by Jan Kochanowski.
The Spirit Level, his first new collection of poems for five years, was published in May 1996. In 1997 The School Bag was published, a companion volume to The Rattle Bag, co-edited with Ted Hughes.
1999 saw the publication of his translation of Beowulf, which went on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year prize. His most recent collection of poetry, Electric Light, was published by Faber in April 2001.
In 2002, Faber published a selection of his prose, Finders Keepers, and in 2004 his translation of Sophocles' Antigone, Burial at Thebes. His new collection District and Circlewill be published in April 2006.
In 1965 he married Marie Devlin and they have three children. He is currently the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence at Harvard University where he goes to teach for 6 weeks every two years.
In October 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.