Derek Mahon

Born:
  • Northern Ireland

Biography

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Bibliography

An Autumn Wind
Life on Earth
Homage to Gaia
Somewhere the Wave
Art Notes
Adaptations
Harbour Lights
Oedipus
Cyrano de Bergerac/Edmond Rostand
Birds/Saint John-Perse
The Seaside Cemetery
Resistance Days
Collected Poems
Words in the Air/Philippe Jaccottet
The Yellow Book
Journalism: Selected Prose 1970-1995
Phaedra/Racine
The Hudson Letter
The Yaddo Letter
Selected Poems
The Bacchae/after Euripides
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
Night Without Day/Raphaële Billetdoux
Selected Poems/Philippe Jaccottet
The School for Wives: a play in 2 Acts after Molière
High Time
Antarctica
A Kensington Notebook
The Chimeras
The Hunt by Night
Courtyards in Delft
The Sea in Winter
Poems 1962-1978
Light Music
In Their Element
The Snow Party
Modern Irish Poetry
Lives
Roman Script
Ecclesiastes
Beyond Howth Head
Night-Crossing
Twelve Poems

Awards

2009
Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada)
2007
David Cohen British Literature Prize
2006
Irish Times Poetry Now Award
1995
Guggenheim Fellowship
1992
Irish Times/Aer Lingus Poetry Prize
1990
Lannan Literature Award (Poetry)
1989
Moncrieff Translation Prize
1987
American Ireland Fund Literary Award
1987
Scott-Manriet Translation Prize
1965
Eric Gregory Award