Seamus Deane

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Seamus Francis Deane (born February 9, 1940 in Derry , Northern Ireland , † May 12, 2021 in Dublin ) was an Irish writer and literary scholar .

Career

Deane graduated from Queen's University Belfast . His fellow students there included the future Canadian writer George McWhirter and the future Irish writer and Nobel Prize laureate Seamus Heaney . Seamus Deane then studied at Cambridge University . First he made a name for himself as a poet . His novel Reading in the Dark , which was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1996 and received the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1996 and the Irish Times Literary Award in 1997 , brought him into the limelight.

In Ireland he was best known for the complete edition of the now five-volume Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing . This is an attempt to give a comprehensive overview of all Irish literature . A special focus was on poetry. On the one hand, the first three volumes, published in 1991, caused storms of enthusiasm among some critics because of the wide selection, on the other hand, many unionists and women in particular felt that they were severely underrepresented. This problem was partially solved in Volumes IV and V (2002); they are dedicated to the literature of Irish women.

Seamus Deane taught until 1993 as a professor of modern English and American literature at University College Dublin . He was a member of Aosdána . Deane died in Dublin in May 2021 at the age of 81.

Works

  • Gradual Wars (1972)
  • Rumors (1977)
  • History Lessons (1983)
  • A Short History of Irish Literature (1986)
  • The French Englightenment and Revolution in England 1798-1832 (1988)
  • Selected Poems (1988)
  • (as General Editor), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing , 5 vols. 1991-2002
  • Reading in the Dark (1996; dt. 1997: In the dark read , Translator .: G. Bandini and D. King. ISBN 3-446-19101-1 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seamus Deane: Derry-born author and poet dies. In: BBC. May 13, 2021, accessed May 13, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Deane, Seamus . In: International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 . London 2003, ISBN 1-85743-178-2 , pp. 85 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - Biographical Data).
  3. ^ Henri Cole, Interview with Seamus Heaney: The Art of Poetry No. 75 , The Paris Review 144, Fall 1997, accessed May 12, 2014
  4. ^ Seamus Deane at Aosdána
personal data
SURNAME Deane, Seamus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deane, Seamus Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Derry
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Dublin