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Seamus Heaney wins TS Eliot poetry prize

January 17, 2007
Irish poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has been named winner of the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry, collecting a cheque for £10,000.

He won for his latest collection, District and Circle, which draws on his travels to work on the London Underground in his younger days. The prize was presented by TS Eliot's widow, Valerie Eliot, at a ceremony in central London.

Source: BBC News online http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6264699.stm
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