Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) was born in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and was followed by numerous volumes of poetry, plays, criticism, and translation, establishing him as one of the leading English-language poets of his generation. In 1995, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to great critical acclaim.
Marco Sonzogni was born in Italy and was educated in Italy, Ireland, and New Zealand. He teaches translation in the School of Languages and Cultures at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington.
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include
Opened Ground,
Electric Light,
Beowulf,
The Spirit Level,
District and Circle, and
Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."