Arts gong for Heaney the master; LITERATURE.Byline: By SARAH Sarah or Sarai: see Sara. Sarah (flourished early 2nd millennium BC) In the Hebrew scriptures, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. She was childless until age 90. BARDON POET Seamus Heaney won the David Cohen Prize The David Cohen Prize is a literary prize awarded every two years to a writer, novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist or dramatist in recognition of an entire body of work, written in the English language. The writer must be a British citizen. for Literature yesterday and was praised for "the self-renewing force of his writing". The prize honours a living writer from the British Isles for a lifetime's achievement. Heaney said: "Much about the David Cohen Prize makes it highly honorific. "First of all there's the list of the previous winners, a roll call of the best, and there's the fact you don't enter for it but are chosen from the wide field of your contemporaries." The UK's Poet laureate Andrew Motion, who chaired a panel of judges, said Heaney's poems had "crystallised the story of our times". He added: "The self-renewing force of his writing, and the sheer scale of his achievement make the award of the Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. Prize an absolutely right and proper act of recognition." Irish Arts Minister Martin Cullen said: "Seamus Heaney is truly a master wordsmith." CAPTION(S): PRIZE Seamus Heaney |
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