14 July 2007 - originally broadcast 04-11-2006 - Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
Since then he's been quoted by presidents, his translation of "Beowulf" became a best-seller, and he praised rapper Eminem for encouraging interest in poetry among young people. Perro de Jong met the poet at Poetry International 2006.

















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