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Seamus Heaney is a playwright, translator, linguist born in Castledawson, United Kingdom (Ireland).
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world". Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland. His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy. He became a lecturer at St.
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| Born | 13 April 1939, Castledawson, United Kingdom |
| Profession | playwright, translator, linguist |
| Nationality | Ireland |
| Employer | Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Educated at | St Columb's College, Queen's University Belfast, Bates College |
| Spouse | Marie Devlin |
| Awards | Duff Cooper Prize, Somerset Maugham Award, Nobel Prize in Literature, Horst Bienek Award for Poetry, T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Poetry Prize, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Irish Book Awards, Lannan L |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Capricorn |
| Nakshatra | Shravana (Pada 3) |
| Sun Sign | Pisces |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Cancer |
| Birth data reliability | Uncertain |
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Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 in Castledawson, United Kingdom. Sources disagree about, or do not verify, this person’s birth details. Treat this chart as indicative only.
Seamus Heaney's Moon sign (Rashi) is Capricorn and the Nakshatra is Shravana, pada 3, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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