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Article: Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 6, 1995
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MARIANNE MACDONALD
Arts Reporter
The world learnt of the long-awaited award of the Nobel Prize
for Literature to Seamus Heaney yesterday - with the exception of
the Irish poet himself, who was walking in Greece.
His publishers, Faber and Faber, said through a harassed
spokeswoman: "It's a case of him happening to call us, because we
don't know where he is. I suppose he might only find out about the
prize from the newspapers."
Heaney, 56, was chosen as winner of the award, worth about
pounds 635,000, by the Swedish Academy, which praised his "works of
lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and
the living past".
It is an honour that has been predicted for the past six ...