Award Winning Books by
SEAMUS HEANEY

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 295 reviews (2000) (215p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed in the exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels in this story to the historical cu... more >>

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Seamus Heaney Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 0   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 0   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 0   National Book Award Wins 0   National Book Award Nominations 0   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 0

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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