| Seamus Heaney  AKA Seamus Justin Heaney
Born: 13-Apr-1939
Birthplace: Castledawson, County Derry, Northern Ireland
Died: 30-Aug-2013
Location of death: Dublin, Ireland
Cause of death: Illness
Remains: Buried, Bellaghy Cemetery, Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet Nationality: Northern Ireland
Executive summary: The Spirit Level Father: Patrick
Mother: Margaret Kathleen
Wife: Marie Devlin (one daughter)
Daughter: Catherine Ann
High School: St. Columb's College, Derry, Northern Ireland
University: BA, Queen's University Belfast (1961)
Professor: Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Professor: Oxford University (1989-94)
Athenaeum Club (London)
Nobel Prize for Literature 1995
Whitbread Prize 1996 for The Spirit Level
Whitbread Prize 1999 for Beowulf
Cholmondeley Award 1967
Stroke
Author of books:
Death of a Naturalist (1966, poetry)
Door into the Dark (1969, poetry)
Wintering Out (1972, poetry)
North (1975, poetry)
Field Work (1979, poetry)
Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968�1978 (1980, essays)
Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish (1983, translation)
Station Island (1984, poetry)
The Haw Lantern (1987, poetry)
Seeing Things (1991, poetry)
Selected Poems, 1966�1987 (1991, poetry)
The Midnight Verdict (1993, translation)
The Redress of Poetry (1995, lectures)
The Spirit Level (1996, poetry)
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (1998, poetry)
Beowulf (1999, translation)
Electric Light (2001, poetry)
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 (2002, essays)
Wrote plays:
The Cure at Troy (1991)
The Burial at Thebes (2004)
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