| 1939 born on April 13
Castledawson, County Derry, Northern Ireland.
1963 took a position as a lecturer in English at St. Joseph's College in Belfast
Joining a poetry workshop with Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, and others under the
guidance of Philip Hobsbaum.
1965 he married Marie Devlin
1966published Death of a Naturalist
| 1976 |
> a resident of Dublin
> recent translation is Beowulf
> won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award
> co-translator
> co-author
> Foreign Member of the American
> Academy of Arts and Letters |
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1981 teaching at Harvard University
1984 he was elected the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and
Oratory
1989-1994 held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford
1995 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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