Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995; he teaches regularly at Harvard University and lives in Dublin.

Awards

Books by Seamus Heaney

  1. Book CoverBeowulf

    Bilingual Edition

    "A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." —New York Times Book ReviewMore

  2. Book CoverBeowulf: A Verse Translation


    Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney’s translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).More

  3. Book CoverBeowulf: An Illustrated Edition


    More than one hundred glorious images, many of objects dating from the time of the story, enhance Seamus Heaney's masterful best-selling translation.More

  4. Book CoverThe Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation


    "A book the many fans of Heaney's Beowulf might take home and dip into, almost at random, for years." —Publishers WeeklyMore