Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was born in Derry in 1939.
His bibliography is vast, his work encompassing poetry, criticicism, theatre and translation.
His major poetry collections are
Death of a Naturalist (London, Faber and Faber, 1966);
Door Into the Dark (London, Faber and Faber, 1969);
Wintering Out (London, Faber and Faber, 1972);
North (London, Faber and Faber, 1975);
Field Work ( London & Boston : Faber and Faber, 1979);
Selected Poems, 1965-1975 (London & Boston, Faber and Faber,
1980);
Poems, 1965-1975 (New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980);
Station Island (London/Boston, Faber and Faber, 1984);
The Haw Lantern (New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1987);
New Selected Poems, 1966-1987 (London, Faber and Faber, 1990);
Seeing Things (New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991);
The Spirit Level (London/Boston, Faber and Faber, 1996);
Opened Ground : Poems, 1966-1996 (Faber, 1998);
Electric Light (Faber, 2001); and District and Circle (Faber & Faber, 2006).
His prose includes
Preoccupations : Selected Prose, 1968-1978 (New York,Farrar,
Straus, and Giroux, 1980);
The Government of the Tongue : the 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures
and Other Critical Writings (London, Faber and Faber, 1988); and
The Redress of Poetry : An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the
University of Oxford on 24 October, 1989 (Oxford, Clarendon Press ;
New York, Oxford University Press, 1990).
As well as translations from Dante in various volumes, and versions from the Polish of Jan Kochanowski, published as Laments
(London, Faber & Faber 1992?), he has published
Sweeney Astray : A Version from the Irish (Derry, Field Day
Theatre Company, 1983).
He has published two plays,
The Cure at Troy : A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (London,
Faber and Faber in association with Field Day, 1990); and a translation, The Burial at Thebes:Sophocles’ Antigone (Faber & Faber, 2004); Along with Ted Hughes, he edited The Rattle Bag
(London & Boston, Faber and Faber, 1982).
He lives in Dublin and is a member of Aosdána He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
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A list of Heaney’s work translated into Swedish has been contributed by Ann Steiner:
Fältarbete (1986) published by Fripress (translation of Field Work);
Hagtornslyktan (1988), published by Fripress (translation of The Haw
Lantern);
Grönt ljus (1989), published by Fripress (selection of poetry);
På väg (1994), published by Natur och Kultur (selection of poetry);
I syner (1996), published by Natur och Kultur (translation of Seeing
Things);
Dit man hör (1996), published by Natur och Kultur (selection of literary
essays).