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Poet Seamus Heaney Wins Nobel Prize; Irishman's Verse Lauded for `Lyrical Beauty'
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A close contender for more than a decade, Seamus Heaney was
finally awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday.
Heaney, the first Irish poet to win the prize since William Butler
Yeats in 1923, was praised by the Swedish Academy for his subtle and
profound approach to the violence in his native Northern Ireland and
"for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday
miracles and the living past." His Nobel Prize is worth $1 million.
At Faber & Faber, his London publishing house, there was
excitement -- and confusion. The poet and his wife, Marie, were on
vacation in ...
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