His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy. Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland. Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world". American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age".
Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime.
Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA ( / ˈ ʃ eɪ m ə s ˈ h iː n i/ 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.
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