LIFE AND WORKS:

He studies at the local school of Anahorish until 1957 when he goes to Belfast to go to the Queen's College. In 1962 he becomes teacher of English at the St. John's College in Belfast and the following year he obtains the assignment of reader at the same school. He begins to write for the newspaper of the University with the pseudonym of Incertus. In 1965, in the same period when occurs the Belfast Festival, he publishes Eleven Poems. In 1966 he moves to the Queen's College and Death of a Naturalist is published and wins numerous prizes. Is of 1969 the book Door into the Dark. Between 1970 and 1971 has the role of reader at the California University of Berkeley. Returned in Ireland he leaves Belfast to go to Glanmore, in county Wicklow, and publishes Wintering Out, 1972. In 1975 North is published and he begins to teach at the Carysfort College in Dublin moving to Sandymount. In 1979 Field Work and the following year Selected Poems and Preoccupations: selected Prose are published. In 1981 he becomes teacher at Harvard and two years later found with the writer Brian Friel and others the Field Day Publishing. The Haw Lantern , published in 1987, contains a brilliant sonnet in memory of his mother, died 3 years before while in Seeing Things, published in 1991, there are numerous poems dedicated to his father. In 1996 he receives the Nobel prize for literature.

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