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Article: Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for literature.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 5, 1995
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Seamus Heaney, the 56-year-old Irish poet burdened and blessed by his reputation as heir to the bardic mantle of William Butler Yeats, won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday.
Announcing the world's richest and most prestigious literary award, worth more than $1 million this year, the Swedish Academy praised Heaney for poems ``of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.''
``He assumes,'' the Academy's proclamation continued, ``that generations of rural ancestors _ who, while not illiterate, were not literary either _ are asserting themselves within him. He speaks with warmth of the rich experience his ...