Seamus Heaney

Known For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-04-13

Deathday

2013-08-30 (74 years old)

Birth Place

Castledawson, United Kingdom

Religion

Catholicism

Height

Father

Patrick Heaney

Mother

Margaret Kathleen McCann

Citizenships

Ireland

Awards

honorary doctor of Caen University, honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Ulysses Medal, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Cunningham Medal, honorary doctorate of the University of La Coruña, AWB Vincent Literary Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Sikkens Prize, Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, St. Louis Literary Award, Poetry Now Award, People of the Year Awards, PEN Translation Prize, Irish PEN Award, Golden Rose Award, Eric Gregory Award, Golden Wreath, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, E. M. Forster Award, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Bodley Medal, Flaiano Prize, James Joyce Award, James Joyce Awards, David Cohen Prize, WH Smith Literary Award, Griffin Poetry Prize, Costa Book Awards, Cholmondeley Award, Irish Book Awards, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Lannan Literary Awards, Forward Poetry Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize, Horst Bienek Award for Poetry, Duff Cooper Prize, Somerset Maugham Award, Nobel Prize in Literature