Prof Seamus Heaney

Career: formerly on staff St Joseph's Coll of Educn, lectr English Dept Queen's Univ 1966-72, freelance writer 1972-75, teacher Carysfort Coll 1975, Boylston prof of rhetoric Harvard Univ 1984-96, prof of poetry Univ of Oxford 1989-94; visiting prof Univ of Calif 1970-71; Somerset Maugham Award 1968, Denis Devlin Award 1973, American Irish Fndn Literary Award 1973, Duff Cooper Meml Prize 1975, W H Smith Annual Award 1976, Nobel Prize for Literature 1995, David Cohen Prize for Literature 2009; memb Aosdána; CLit 1991

Books and Publications: Eleven Poems (1965), Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 (1980), Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1980), The Rattle Bag (ed with Ted Hughes, 1982), Sweeney Astray (1984), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987, Whitbread Award 1987), The Government of the Tongue (1988), New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (1990), The Cure at Troy - A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (1990), Seeing Things (1991), Sweeney's Flight (1992), The Redress of Poetry (1995), Laments (trans with Stanislaw Baranczak, 1995), The Spirit Level (1996, Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1997), The School Bag (ed with Ted Hughes, 1997), Opened Ground Poems 1966-96 (1998), Beowulf, A New Translation (1999), Electric Light (2001), Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 (2002), The Burial at Thebes - A Version of Sophocles' Antigone (2004), District and Circle (2006, T S Eliot Prize 2007), Robert Henryson: The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables (trans, 2009), Human Chain (2010, Forward Prize 2010)