Irish poet Seamus Heaney has won the David Cohen Prize for Literature.
This Guardian article is splendid, too, and tells us that “The prize is unusual in that the winner receives a further £12,500 to be donated either to a literature organisation that supports young writers, or to an individual writer under the age of 35. Heaney chose to give the £12,500 to an annual poetry speaking competition open to all post-primary students in Ireland, Poetry Aloud.”
