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Seamus Heaney
was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland.
Death of a
Naturalist, his first collection,
appeared in 1966, and since then he has published
poetry, criticism and translations which have
established him as one of the leading poets of his
generation. He has twice won the Whitbread Book of the
Year, for
The Spirit Level (1996) and
Beowulf
(1999). In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature. Human Chain,
his twelfth collection of poems, was published in 2010
and was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize.
Seamus Heaney
est né dans le comté de Derry en Irlande du Nord. Depuis
Death of a Naturalist, son premier recueil de
poèmes paru en 1966, il a publié des oeuvres de poésie,
des critiques littéraires et des traductions qui l’ont
distingué comme l’un des poètes majeurs de sa
génération. Il s’est vu remettre le prix annuel du livre
Whitbread à deux reprises pour
The Spirit Level,
1996
et sa traduction de Beowulf (1999). En 1995, il
reçoit le Prix Nobel de littérature. Son douzième
recueil,
Human Chain,
publié en 2010, a obtenu le prix Forward Poetry. |
