Name Seamus Deane Role Poet | Awards Guardian Fiction Prize Nominations Man Booker Prize | |
 | ||
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast
Pembroke College, Cambridge Education St Columb's College, Queen's University Belfast, Pembroke College, Cambridge Fields Literary criticism, Poetry Books Reading in the Dark, Strange country, A Short History of Irish Liter, Celtic revivals, Foreign Affections | ||
Seamus deane lecture september 2015 7 minute excerpt
Seamus Deane (born 9 February 1940) is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic.
Contents
- Seamus deane lecture september 2015 7 minute excerpt
- Joe cleary introduces seamus deane lecture series playhouse derry
- Works
- References
Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Deane was brought up as part of a Catholic nationalist family. He attended St. Columb's College in Derry, where he befriended fellow-student Seamus Heaney. He also attended Queen's University Belfast (BA and MA) and Pembroke College, Cambridge (PhD). He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company.
Joe cleary introduces seamus deane lecture series playhouse derry
Works
Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark (published in 1996) won the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize and the 1996 South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature, is a New York Times Notable Book, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and the Irish Literature Prize in 1997, besides being shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. The novel has been translated into more than 20 languages . He was also the general editor of the monumental Field Day Anthology Of Irish Writing and of the Penguin Joyce.
Deane's non-fiction works include:
His poetry includes:
Seamus Deane is currently the Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a co-editor of Field Day Review, an annual journal of Irish studies. Until 1993, he was Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. In the late 70s and 80s, he taught American college juniors part-time at the School of Irish Studies in the Ballsbridge section of Dublin.