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Derek Mahon

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Irish poet (1941-2020)

United KingdomWritersLived 1941 to 2020 · aged 78
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Norman Derek Mahon was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President of Ireland Michael D.

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2019Poetry Now Award
2009Poetry Now Award
2007David Cohen Prize
2006Poetry Now Award
1991Cholmondeley Award
1990Lannan Literary Awards
1965Eric Gregory Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
AWB Vincent Literary Award

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Norman Derek Mahon was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins said of Mahon, "he shared with his northern peers the capacity to link the classical and the contemporary but he brought also an edge that was unsparing of cruelty and wickedness."

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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deceased
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Lived 1941 to 2020 · aged 78
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13 languages

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