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...Swedish Academy of Letters awarded Heaney the prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past...
...Heaney, a 56-year-old native of Northern Ireland, will collect $1 million along with the recognition that comes with the prize...
...expected [Heaney to get the award]...We knew it was coming but we didn't know when," said Haviaris Stratis, a poet and novelist and a friend of Heaney...
...Seamus Heaney is one of the great poets of our century. He has written verse that is moving, always complex and yet powerful in its simplicity--'so pellucid it can never be muddied,' to borrow one of his lines," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a press release yesterday. "Harvard has long been fortunate to have Seamus Heaney on its faculty, and the entire Harvard community joins with his admirers around the world in congratulating...
...main subject of Heaney's poetry is the religious strife in Northern Ireland. The poet resides in Dublin, usually spending one semester each year teaching at Harvard...