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Past contributors to the Review include President Clinton and Lamont University Professor Emeritus and 1998 Nobel Prize winner Amartya...
...famous "bog poems" by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet, agonizes over the problems of place and the mixed emotions of homecoming. Often compared by critics to noted expatriates (and fellow Nobel Laureates) Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz, Heaney frequently writes about returning as an outsider to his homeland in Ireland. There he finds a rich heritage of language and myth, subjugated by the fear-driven assimilation of British culture forced upon Ireland with the onset of "The Troubles...
Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for what the Swedish Academy of Letters praised as "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He is the fourth Irish writer to have won the prize, joining the ranks of William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925) and Samuel Beckett (1969). He is one of the most popular poets of all time (his collections, particularly North, have outsold nearly all other poetic collections in recent memory) and the author of a collection of 18 books of poetry, prose and drama...
...John Hume and David Trimble won the Nobel Peace Prize...
...attention to social goals as well, always leaning toward their most vulnerable citizens, and overcoming deep-rooted biases to invest in the health and well-being of girls as well as boys. In a world in which 1.5 billion people subsist on less than $1 a day, this Nobel Prize can be not just a celebration of a wonderful scholar but also a clarion call to attend to the urgent needs and hopes of the world's poor...