Seamus Heaney: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Seamus Justin Heaney
Born	April 13, 1939 • Northern Ireland
Died	August 30, 2013 (aged 74) • Dublin • Ireland
Awards And Honors	Costa Book Awards (1999) • Costa Book Awards (1996) • Nobel Prize (1995) • Costa Book Awards (1987)
Notable Works	“Death of a Naturalist” • “District and Circle” • “Door into the Dark” • “Electric Light” • “Field Work” • “Human Chain” • “North” • “Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968–1978” • “Seeing Things” • “Station Island” • “The Burial at Thebes” • “The Haw Lantern” • “The Midnight Court” • “The Spirit Level” • “Wintering Out”