The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995

Seamus Heaney

Prize share: 1/1

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 was awarded to Seamus Heaney "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

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