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Informationen zum Autor Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist , his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones , a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain , his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. His translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim, followed in 2018 by 100 Poems , a selection of poems from his entire career, chosen by his family. Klappentext Paperback edition of the Nobel Prize winning Heaney's 12th collection of poems, which won the Forward Poetry Prize 2010 and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. '...his best single volume for many years, and one that contains some of the best poems he has written...' Colm Toibin, "Guardian" Human Chain by Seamus Heaney is the last collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and translator. Zusammenfassung Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.
