Seamus Heaney wins Whitbread Poetry Award

Updated: 21:58, Thursday, 6 January 2000

Irish poet Seamus Heaney has won this year's Whitbread Poetry Award.

Seamus Heaney,Wins Whitbread Poetry Award Seamus Heaney,Wins Whitbread Poetry Award

Irish poet Seamus Heaney has won this year's Whitbread Poetry Award. The Nobel laureate took the honour for his translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf". The accolade, announced this morning, puts him on the shortlist for the overall Whitbread title alongside three other individual category winners.

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