The Independent - London, October 6th, 1995
MARIANNE MACDONALD
Arts Reporter
The world learnt of the long-awaited award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney yesterday - with the exception of the Irish poet himself, who was walking in Greece.
His publishers, Faber and Faber, said through a harassed spokeswoman: "It's a case of him happening to call us, because we don't know where he is. I suppose he might only find out about the prize from the newspapers."
Heaney, 56, was chosen as winner of the award, worth about pounds 635,000, by the Swedish Academy, which praised his "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which...
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