Seamus Deane

Seamus Deane
Seamus Deane in 2015
Born(1940-02-09)9 February 1940
Derry, Northern Ireland
Died12 May 2021(2021-05-12) (aged 81)
Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Alma materQueen's University Belfast
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsLiterary criticism, poetry, fiction, postcolonialism

Seamus Francis Deane (9 February 1940 – 12 May 2021) was a Northern Irish poet, novelist, critic, and intellectual historian. He was noted for his debut novel, Reading in the Dark, which won several literary awards and was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1996.

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