Seamus Deane

Born in Derry, Seamus Deane was educated at Queen's University in Belfast and earned his doctorate at Cambridge University. He was professor of Modern English and American Literature in University College Dublin and currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Deane is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Gradual Wars (1972), which won the AE Memorial Prize, History Lessons (1983) and Selected Poems (1988), and the general editor of the three-volume Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991). His first novel, Reading in the Dark, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996 and won the Irish Times Literary Award in 1997. Seamus Deane is a member of The Royal Irish Academy as well as of Aosdána.