Castledawson, N Ireland, United Kingdom

Famous Persons from Castledawson, N Ireland, United Kingdom

Seamus Heaney - Born on April 13, 1939 - Linguist, University teacher, Author, Translator, Playwright, Poet, Writer, and Actor - Ulysses Medal | Member of the Royal Irish Academy | Cunningham Medal | honorary doctorate of the University of La Coruña | AWB Vincent Literary Award | Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature | Sikkens Prize | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism | St. Louis Literary Award | Poetry Now Award | People of the Year Awards | Golden Wreath | honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow | PEN Translation Prize | Irish PEN Award | Golden Rose Award | Eric Gregory Award | E. M. Forster Award | Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service | Bodley Medal | Flaiano Prize | James Joyce Awards | David Cohen Prize | WH Smith Literary Award | Griffin Poetry Prize | Costa Book Awards | Cholmondeley Award | Irish Book Awards | Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize | Lannan Literary Awards | Forward Poetry Prize | T. S. Eliot Prize | Horst Bienek Award for Poetry | Duff Cooper Prize | Somerset Maugham Award | Nobel Prize in Literature (died: August 30, 2013)
Fred Catherwood - Born on January 30, 1925 - Non-fiction writer, and Politician - Knight Bachelor (died: November 30, 2014)