Seamus Heaney#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2570 |
| Membership type: | HONORARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
Seamus Heaney passed away August 30, 2013.
Positions Held
- 1998-2006 Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard
- 1989-1994 Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford
- 1985-1997 Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- Poetry
Honours and Awards
- 1966 Eric Gregory Award
- 1967 Cholmondeley Award
- 1968 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
- 1975 E. M. Forster Award
- 1975 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize
- 1985 PEN Translation Prize
- 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1996 Whitbread Prize
- 1996 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 1999 Whitbread Prize
- 2001 Golden Wreath of Poetry
- 2005 Irish PEN Award
- 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize for District and Circle
- 2007 Poetry Now Award for District and Circle
- 2009 David Cohen Prize
- 2011 Poetry Now Award for Human Chain
- 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist for Human Chain
- 2011 Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of Aosdána
- Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres
- Honorary doctorate from University of Pennsylvania
- Honorary doctorate from Rhodes University
