PagineHeaney grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland and wrote about digging, bogs, family and the Troubles. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 and translated Beowulf.
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Death of a Naturalist (1966), North (1975), Beowulf (translation) (1999).