<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Michael </Li> <Li> Christopher </Li> <Li> Catherine Ann </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Michael </Li> <Li> Christopher </Li> <Li> Catherine Ann </Li> </Ul> <P> Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni /; 13 April 1939--30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator . He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature . Among his best - known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume . </P> <P> Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland . His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy . He became a lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Belfast in the early 1960s, after attending Queen's University and began to publish poetry . He lived in Sandymount, Dublin, from 1976 until his death . He also lived part - time in the United States from 1981 to 2006 . Heaney was recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry during his lifetime . </P>

Who won the nobel prize for literature in 1995