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Nick Laird follows Seamus Heaney in Faber Prize win
March 31, 2009
Nick Laird has said that Death of a Naturalist changed everything for him, so it must be particularly satisfying for the poet and novelist to pick up the prizes which helped launch Heaney’s own career over 40 years ago.
To read the full article, click here. To read an earlier newslog item about Nick Laird, click here.
British poet Nick Laird’s second collection, On Purpose, has been awarded the Geoffrey Faber memorial prize, an annual award given to verse and prose in alternate years in honour of the founder of Faber & Faber.
Previous winners include Paul Muldoon, JM Coetzee, Graham Swift and Seamus Heaney, who won the prize in 1968 for his debut collection Death of a Naturalist. On Purpose has already won the Somerset Maugham award, which Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist also won on its original appearance. Nick Laird has said that Death of a Naturalist changed everything for him, so it must be particularly satisfying for the poet and novelist to pick up the prizes which helped launch Heaney’s own career over 40 years ago.
To read the full article, click here. To read an earlier newslog item about Nick Laird, click here.
Source: guardian.co.uk, 31 March
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