Nobel laureate
Seamus Heaney — Nobel Prize in Literature 1995
“for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”
Prize motivation
“for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”
The Swedish Academy awarded Seamus Heaney the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.
Other laureates of the 1990s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).