!!Seamus Heaney (1939 - 2013)
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The Academy is saddened to annouce that Irish poet [Seamus Heaney|User/Heaney_Seamus], an honorary member of the Academia Europaea and a Nobel laureate for Literature 1995 "''for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past''", died August 30, 2013, aged 74.
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[Obituary|http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13930435], BBC News\\
[Obituary|http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/30/seamus-heaney-death-breach-language], The Guardian\\
[Obituary|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/10276008/Seamus-Heaney.html], The Telegraph