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1995 Nobel Prize in Literature information


1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
Seamus Heaney
"for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."
Date
  • 5 October 1995 (1995-10-05) (announcement)
  • 10 December 1995
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."[1] He is the fourth Irish Nobel laureate after the playwright Samuel Beckett in 1969.[2][3]

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ Seamus Heaney – Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org
  3. ^ William Grimes (6 October 1995). "Seamus Heaney, Poet, Wins the Nobel Prize". New York Times. Retrieved 21 May 2021.

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