Writing · Writer · Creator
Active 1998–present · Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Cholmondeley Award, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Eric Gregory Award, Irish PEN Award, T. S. Eliot Prize, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, E. M. Forster Award
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.